“Wrapped in Ruins”. A New Exhibit.

“Wrapped in Ruins” is an installation at Gualala Arts Center’s Burnett Gallery combining dance, poetry, music and projected images. It explores the dynamics of disintegration, renewal, fall and recovery.

April offers a unique exhibit and performance event at Gualala Arts. Fine press Lines & Faces brings an exhibit to the Burnett Gallery, opening Friday, April 14, closing Saturday, May 6. In addition, two “Wrapped In Ruins” performance events are scheduled in the Burnett Gallery, incorporating images from the exhibit. The performances are scheduled for Saturday, April 15 at 4 pm and 5 pm and two additional performances on Saturday, May 6, also at 4 pm and 5 pm. Tickets for the “Wrapped In Ruins” performances are $20 advance, $5 more the day of, and are available at Gualala Arts, Dolphin Gallery, and EventBrite.com. The dancer is Lucinda Weaver. The poet is Alan Bern. The musician is Karl Young. Please note: Masks and vaccinations are both required for the ticketed events.

Lines & Faces, a San Francisco Bay Area collaboration of artist/printer Robert Woods and writer/translator Alan Bern will exhibit illustrated poetry broadsides and prints. Woods and Bern have produced illustrated poetry broadsides for 50 years; they also produce prints of Woods’ art without words. The exhibit includes a sequence of illustrated broadsides based on Dante’s Divine Comedy, attempting to capture and respond to central moments within Dante’s canti. Samples can be viewed on the website linesandfaces.com/divine-comedy.

Lucinda Weaver grew up dancing in Berkeley, California. She studied at the University of California at Berkeley with David Wood and in New York City, where she met Margaret Jenkins who invited her to be a founding member of the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company in San Francisco. She then lived in Europe where she worked and performed as a solo dancer/ choreographer. Currently she works as a Physical Therapist. Weaver is also on the guest faculty of the Accademia Teatro Dimitri, a physical theater university in Switzerland. 

Retired children’s librarian Alan Bern is a poet and storywriter with three books of poetry and is a published/exhibited photographer. Bern is cofounder with artist/printer Robert Woods of the fine press/publisher Lines & Faces, linesandfaces.com. IN THE PACE OF THE PATH is Alan’s first full-length hybrid of poetry, prose, and photos, forthcoming from UnCollected Press. Recent awards include: Winner, Saw Palm Poetry Contest (2022); Flash Fiction Finalist, Ekphrastic Sex (2021); and Winner, Littoral Press Poetry Prize (2015). Recent and upcoming writing and photo work in: Haunted Waters Press, Feral, DarkWinter Literary Magazine, The Hyacinth Review, and swifts & slows: a quarterly of crosscrossings.

Robert Woods worked as a printer for over thirty years at Madison Street Press in Oakland, California. Woods trained as both a fine artist and craftsman at the University of California at Santa Barbara and with a number of practicing artists. He is a painter, sculptor, wood engraver, and printmaker. 

After spending some time as a jazz tenor saxophone player Karl Young embarked on a career as a physicist and chose to satisfy his musical yearnings with an intensive study of the shakuhachi or Japanese bamboo flute. Over the past 20 years he has studied with a number of teachers; his primary sensei are Kaoru Kakizakai and Riley Lee, both masters in the dokyoku tradition. He is co-founder of the group Ensohza formed in 2006, specializing in traditional minyo and Japanese folk dance, in which he plays the shinobue or transverse bamboo flute as well as the shakuhachi.