ARTIST STATEMENT
Seeking patterns is human nature, from the caveman distilling the mysteries of the hunt, the child seeing animals in the clouds, the naturalist studying tree formation, to the abstract painter correlating colors with musical rhythm. Entropy, death, or the destruction of pattern, is the antithesis of life. The depth and scale of the investigation make up the artistic dialogue.  I marvel at nature’s patterns, from the microscopic way glass molecules flow or crystallize to the macroscopic way of how the negative space around a tree can flatten out to identify the object. Pattern seeking is my artistic impulse.

BIO
BS Art & Design, MIT, 1973
MArch, U. Colorado, Boulder, 1977

Starting out as an architect Cha-Rie has expanded her interests and expertise to include graphic design, ceramics and glass.  Her public art commissions include a series of  murals for the City of Mission Viejo, the Exposition Park Library for the City of LA, the Customer Service Station at the Executive Office at the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration for the County of LA, the ARTS bus for the City of Pasadena, a bus stop for the City of Santa Clarita, and up coming Monrovia train station for the Gold Line Extension for the MTA. She is especially interested in the patterns of nature and how they are expressed through the materials of glass and ceramics.