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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – “Opposites Attract: Collaborative works by Susie Slabaugh White and Brook Forest White Jr.” celebrates the couple’s artistic partnership. The exhibit opens Aug. 1 and runs through Sept. 20. An opening reception will be Aug. 2.
The show’s title reflects the very different ways the artists conceptualize their work.
“I am a free spirit in every sense of my life and especially my art,” Susie said. “My mother remembers me seeing the world as a painting. She knew then as I do now that I see the world differently:
Brook found art through glass blowing. “The glass-blowing process captured my attention from the very beginning, and it is still that process that drives me.”
An example of how a typical collaboration comes to fruition begins with Brook making a big glass vessel that serves as Susie’s canvas. Then Susie, whose background is in painting and drawing, etches, sandblasts or implements other “cold work” to the surface of the glass.
“Susie and I work very differently, but somehow the fire brings us together in the creative process, and we usually find common ground,” Brook said.
The glass art exhibition is the first time since they opened the hot shop and gallery in 2004 that the couple has shown solely their own work.
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