Emerging Artist: Linda Lawrie

Age: 37

Birthplace: Wausau, Wis.; currently living in Cheney.

Education: Bachelor of Fine Arts candidate, Eastern Washington University, Fall 2005; Associate of Fine Arts, Spokane Falls Community College, 2003.

Day job: Full-time student and owner of Art Expressions by Linda.

Describe your art: Three-dimensional, sculptural works including glass weavings and fusing, and metal fabricating.

Influences: Architects Frank Lloyd Wright and Frank Gehry and contemporary minimalist sculptor Martin Puryear. Wright and Gehry, while “paying attention to design and the integrity of materials,” both created beautiful “structures that were integrated into the environment,” Lawrie says.

Talk a little about your art: “We live and work in structures, and we ourselves are structures. Thus, most of my work takes on some sort of geometric form,” Lawrie says.

“When the form is juxtaposed with the luxuriousness, sexiness and rawness of glass woven into metal and with the coldness, structure and strength of metal, it creates an implied sense of tension I want the viewer to feel and wonder about,” she says.

“I deliberately choose materials that lend themselves to perfection, like clear, glass, feminine, domestic dinner plates, which are shattered and precisely woven into wire mesh and placed in front of a mirror for a shattered and then fixed or constructed reflection.

“This is so the viewer is able to look into it and see the repair and a semblance of order that one can create out of chaos,” Lawrie says. “I choose to leave the artwork with some imperfections as a metaphor of the human experience.”

Where we can see your work locally: Far West Billiards, First and Monroe, Saturday to July 24.

E-mail: lindamlka@yahoo.com