Saturday, March 7, 2015

Portraits: Drawings and Installation by Bill Yates and Denise Banker

For Gallery Walk on March 7, Studio 36 presents Portraits: Drawings and Installation by Bill Yates and Denise Banker, on Saturday, from 5:00 to 8:00 pm. This collaborative show focuses on tensions inherent in conditioned response and self-expression and integrates drawings, live installation, audio, and visual elements. Sound design, video, and staging created with the assistance of Camille Hildebrandt, Dmitry Artamonov, and David Noble.

Bill Yates (1955 –2005) and Denise Banker are both graduates of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Banker, a Port Townsend resident since 2007, earned her PhD in English, creative dissertation, in 2005. Yates, a 1992 graduate of the University’s Fine Arts program, worked in oil, pastels, and watercolor and died of cancer in 2005.

Painting by Bill Yates
Painting by Bill Yates.