Radius Gallery is honored to exhibit new works by three outstanding artists:

Nina Glaser, whose highly imaginative compositions beautifully blend mosaic glass and original photography;

Candice Methe, whose sculptural ceramic vessels alluringly embody the contemporary and the archaic;  

James G. Todd, whose expressive woodblock print images of artists—visual, literary & musical—celebrate the pursuit of creativity.

The title of the show comes from the poem "Mysteries, Yes" by Mary Oliver.

These works will be available for pick up or shipping after April 13th.

NINA GLASER

Santa Fe, NM • BIO

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CANDICE METHE

Gerton, NC • BIO

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JAMES G. TODD

Missoula, MT • BIO

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ARTIST BIOS

NINA GLASER

My work has always explored relationships-the timeless conflicts and yearnings of human beings. The visual stories I create are allegorical, often inspired by mythologies. I'm fascinated by co-existing realities, contradictions and the tensions they create.

—Nina Glaser

Nina Glaser had a 20-year career as an accomplished, internationally recognized fine-art photographer. She now repurposes her black-and­white figurative photographs, combining them with colorful stained glass and other materials to create singular, highly expressive mixed media art objects. This treatment of the photographs gives them a kind of renewed life, says Glaser, "with new stories to tell."

Glaser's work has appeared in dozens of group and solo exhibitions over the past four decades, and is included in the permanent collections of UCLA's Wight Art Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), Triton Museum of Art (Santa Clara, CA), Yale University (New Haven, CN) and other institutions. Her photographs have been widely published, and are the subject of two monographs: Repurposed (1998) and Outside of Time (1984). Glaser spent her formative years in Israel, and served in the Israeli army during wartime-an experience she says formed her perspective of and sense of urgency about the world and human nature. She now lives in Santa Fe, NM.

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CANDICE METHE

I'm interested in the vessel as a metaphor. Having grown up poor, I've never been able to let go of function in my work; everything has to have some sort of purpose. But I'm also interested in so much more than the cup, the bowl, the teapot.... I don't always start out with a concrete idea; I build intuitively until something starts to happen. It's a collaboration between me and the material, and it's through my hands and the quality of touch that I'm able to honor honesty, vibrancy, energy, and humility.

—Candice Methe

Originally from Falmouth, Massachusetts, Candice Methe is a studio artist and educator now living in Gerton, North Carolina. She has been working in clay for twenty-five years and has held residencies at the Roswell Artist in Residence Foundation (Roswell, NM), The Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts (Helena, MT), Red Lodge Clay Center (Red Lodge, MT) and Santa Fe Clay (Santa Fe, NM). She received her BFA in Ceramics and Art History from Northern Arizona University and her MFA from the University of Minnesota. Inspired by historical objects, she has traveled to Japan, Nicaragua and sites across the US to study various practices of clay artisans. In 2016 she received the Warren MacKenzie Advancement Award through Northern Clay Center to travel to Ghana, West Africa, where she studied indigenous clay architecture and learned traditional ways of working with clay.

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JAMES G. TODD

Long ago I decided not to confine myself to any particular artistic approach or aesthetic philosophy. Picasso's attitude toward creativity probably influenced me as much as that of any artist. He saw his art as an ongoing investigation, and was always ready to either analyze a single topic with endless variations or, if necessary, to change his approach and subject matter overnight. Despite the variation of my content and style, I have been largely committed to the traditional principles of design and composition. I believe that art history from the Paleolithic age to the present strongly suggests that these visual principles may be physiologically based and are not merely cultural.

—James G. Todd

James G. Todd was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He attended the College of Great Falls and continued his studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Chicago. He received his MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the University of Montana, where he went on to a 30-year career as a Professor of both humanities and art. Todd is a member of the Association Jean Chieze in France, the Wood Engravers Network in the US, and the Royal Society of Painter­Printmakers in the UK. His images appear in numerous publications, including A Radiant Map of the World by Rick Newby and Still Another Day by Pablo Neruda, and his original artworks appear in the permanent collections of numerous museums around the nation and abroad.

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