Valley artists exhibit receptions Saturday

La Conner artist Maggie Wilder’s “Beloved: A Courtship of Place” opens with a reception 2-5 p.m. Saturday. It is the Perry and Carlson Gallery’s April exhibit.

Wilder writes: “For many years I lived in a rustic cabin with Ika Island looming a short distance away. On winter nights, especially, the sight of it standing silently while the sun dropped beneath its silhouette gave me much comfort. Though I had many opportunities to travel with my kayak to her shores, I quietly pledged to never set foot on her. Perhaps not every place needs to be personally investigated by me. Maybe we can regard places with the kind of respect that requires an invitation. Maybe human beings weren’t meant to occupy every inch of the globe. Maybe.

“The barn paintings are all based on actual structures still standing in the valley. They are my meditation the success and inevitable failure of each human endeavor and the possible elegance of decay. I hope to have created paintings worthy of contemplation.”

The Gallery is at 504 S 1st Street, Mount Vernon.

Moe, Clough, Brems at i.e. in Edison

i.e., Margy Lavelle’s Edison gallery, exhibits work by Allen Moe, Michael Clough and James Brems in April. Lavelle writes they “are all working in media that is new to them within the last several years.” For Moe: drop paintings; for Clough: carved rocks; for Brems: transfer drawings.

Lavelle notes “I have observed artists being formed or transformed over time by circumstances often beyond their control. The one thing that doesn’t change is that they continue to make art. That central drive doesn’t leave them though the manifestations take different shapes.”

Reception: 3-6 p.m. April 3 with the artists. i.e. is at 5800 Cains Court, Edison. Exhibit open weekends through April 25.

Both galleries strictly enforce wearing face masks and social distancing measures.