Wood Cock (from The Book of Desire)
Summer Lake, Oregon (Budweiser)
Mixed Media, 2024
Please note that the opening date for this show has been delayed to Friday, September 13th.
The process of making rarely follows a straight line. Singular works of art, bodies of work, are preceded by wanderings, circuitous lines of inquiry that result in half-finished prototypes, small adjacencies, satellites, B-sides, cul de sacs, and dead ends. MISC., featuring the works of artist/photographers Nicole Jean Hill and Doug Dertinger, is the second of Dertinger’s exhibitions gleaning the wealth of leftover materials from the artists’ studios. The show centers on the outliers of production, myriad objects that speak to the way in which process articulates curiosity and manifests meditation.
About the Artists
Nicole Jean Hill is an artist, educator, and editor, living and working in Eureka, California where she is the chair of the Art Department at Cal Poly Humboldt. Her most recent publication, "Encampment, Wyoming," about the work of pioneer photographer Lora Webb Nichols, was published in 2021 by FW:Books. Doug Dertinger lives and works in Sacramento, CA, where he is a professor in the Design Department at Sacramento State University.