Rhine & Meilander has their unique style and individual artist pursuits, but this show will highlight pieces they have collaborated on, including handmade paper, jewelry, collage, sculpture, and mixed media.
“We are so happy to have the opportunity to show our work together.”
“Although we mostly work separately on our own art and projects, we sometimes appropriate each other’s ideas and materials. Because we work in physical proximity, there is an unconscious cross-pollination of ideas. We have in common a love of materials, art processes, experimentation, and abstraction. This led us both to use hand papermaking as a medium because of its malleable, flexible and tactile qualities. Working with handmade paper and playing with its techniques is a jumping-off point for many of our mixed media artworks.”
Jim Meilander works with many diverse materials using a wide range of techniques: hand-papermaking, collage, printmaking, painting, drawing, and sculpture. His abstract imagery is a playful personal synthesis of real and imaginary images. He is inspired by his natural and man-made physical surroundings, by objects used in work and play, and by pure fantasy.
Joan Rhine’s creations include abstract wall pieces and sculpture in mixed media and jewelry. Her most recent work is evolving in two separate yet related directions: sculptural mixed media artworks that combine copper wire and handmade paper and her “Joan Rhine designs …. Jewelry” collection using precious metals, semi-precious stones, and beads. Joan’s expressive jewelry pieces are unique, each one completely handmade one-of-a-kind or in small editions. Her contemporary jewelry designs are light, comfortable to wear and flatter the wearer.
2019/10/03 - 2019/10/27
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The Coast Highway Art Collective in Point Arena is hosting on opening reception on Saturday, Oct. 5, from 5 to 7 pm for husband and wife artists Jim Mielander and Joan Rhine.
Coast Highway Art Collective
284 Main Street, Point Arena, CA
The Coast Highway Art Collective in Point Arena is hosting on opening reception on Saturday, Oct. 5, from 5 to 7 pm for husband and wife artists Jim Mielander and Joan Rhine. This is a free event. Please come and see.