Recycled metal art works show open for First Friday walk June 3

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A reception for two Clark County artists who work with recycled metal and materials will be in the Anstine Sixth Floor Gallery of the Public Service Center during the June 3 First Friday art walk.

 Works by Wendy Armstrong and Angela Ridgway are on display in the gallery through June. The show is entitled “Wanderings.”

 The Public Service Center is located at 1300 Franklin St., Vancouver. The building is open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, except holidays.

 The reception for Ridgway and Armstrong will be 5:30-7:30 p.m. Entertainment will be by local jazz guitarist Anthony Utehs. Light refreshments will be served.

In her art, Armstrong strives to capture a viewer’s attention with something unexpected, touchable, whimsical or interactive.



 “I have great interest in reusing materials as a way to honor the past,” she said.

 Ridgway combines metals with organic colors and iridescent hues to give discarded scrap metal “new life.”

 “The metal could have a unique shape or surface or be as plain as a piece of paper,” she said. “When I see it, I don’t think about what it is, but what it might become.”

 Both artists were chosen for the 2015 Clark County Open Studio Tour.