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Alisa Formway Roe

The Arts Center Exhibit(s):

• '9th Around Oregon Annual Exhibition,' Oct 1 to Oct 27, 2011

Statement:

"I am so thrilled to be showing “Tree Trunk Tangle Bench” in the 9th Around Oregon Annual Show. This piece resulted from my desire to explore and be challenged by different metals using different processes than I had previously employed. This was my first piece combining corten steel and stainless steel. Generally speaking, to create my work, I cut, bend, hammer and weld steel into abstract, as well as representative forms.  My view of the world has always been one in which the design elements of form, color and texture are interacting and relating. “Tree Trunk Tangle Bench”, was inspired by the massive logs seen piled alongside Pacific Northwest mountain creeks during spring run-off:  rich brown tree bark, wet with rain and stream mist, set off by the white torrent of nearby rushing water. The corten, or “weathering” steel is here formed into cylinders of various diameters and lengths, “tumbled” to finally rest balanced with the stainless steel seating surface, set over, and cantilevered from, this “log-jam”. The patina of the corten is designed to complement the visually cool qualities of stainless steel, and the solid round “log” lengths to contrast the rectangular, slatted seat bench. Each independent form is anchored to the ground and bolted to its neighbor."

- Alisa Formway Roe, 2011

Biography:

I received my bachelor of arts in Art History from the University of Washington in 1979.  In 2005 after many years raising a family, I returned to my artistic orientation and began sculpting with welded mild, corten, and stainless steels.

Shows

• “Tree Trunk Tangle Bench” and “Spirit Uplifting” Juried Special Exhibit: “The Language of Sculpture” in the Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts. June 24, 25, 26 2011. Lake Oswego, Oregon.
• “August Trunk.”  Gallery Without Walls Juried Exhibition.  Lake Oswego, Oregon.  August 2009 - August 2011. Voted the “People’s Choice Award” and purchased by the city, May, 2011.
• “Precarious.”  Finalist in The Big Rock Garden Juried Exhibition.  Bellingham, Washington.  May - September 2008.
• “August Trunk Maquette.”  Finalist in Cedarhurst Biennial Sculpture Competition and Maquette Exhibition.  Mt. Vernon, Illinois.  August 9 - October 19, 2008.