The art exhibition will run in Founders Hall Art Gallery from January 17, 2019
through May 5, 2019. There will be an opening reception on Thursday, January 17, 2019, from 5:30 – 7:30 PM.
Chaos Theory: Carol Paquet and Sheryl Daane-Chesnut is a body of work, which engages the unpredictability and conversely, order in nature. Behind the veil of apparent randomness, many of nature’s processes are highly ordered, following simple rules. Daane-Chesnut and Paquet use nature as a point of departure but the similarity between their processes stops there. Daane-Chesnut physically alters the surface of her paintings, whereas Paquet looks for disparate properties existing in the source material and then mines the image until the content is loosened from its frame of reference. The intuitive and sometimes volatile quality of Daane’s work complements Paquet’s more introspective ad grace interpretation of everyday abstractions. Both artists speak to the indiscrimination of their subject matter: one artist gives more tenure to chance and the other endeavors to harness the accidental and create a semblance of order and structure.
About the Artists:
Carol Paquet was born in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) and spent the first nine years of her life there before moving to Johannesburg, South Africa with her family. After attending the College of Art in Johannesburg, she worked in the advertising industry as an Art Director for the following 20 years. During this time, she worked in Cape Town and Johannesburg, London, and in Southern California. While living in Johannesburg she also studied etching with William Kentridge – now an internationally acclaimed artist. www.CarolPaquet.com
Sheryl Daane-Chesnut was born in Seattle but grew up in California’s Bay Area. She received her BFA from UC Berkeley and UC Santa Barbara. She worked for a number of years as an art director for product and graphic design. She now works full-time as a fine artist in San Luis Obispo, but her years of design are evident in the color, compassion, and balance in her work. www.SherylDaane.com
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Michelle Martin
Community Relations
Photo Credits: Soka University
Artwork Credits: Sheryl Daane-Chesnut | Red Rock (detail) | 48” by 96” | Mixed Media on Birch Panel
Carol Paquet | Twister | 70” by 40” (detail) | Dye sublimation on Chromalux aluminum
