Blending nature with art

COEUR d'ALENE - Butter, orange juice concentrate, ice, clay and bioplastics are materials David Prince uses to create art from a world which naturally provides him with the tools.

The Los Angeles artist, curator and community arts advocate will have works on display in North Idaho College's Boswell Hall Corner Gallery from Sept. 30 through Oct. 31 in an exhibit called, "The Novelty of Nature."

Prince received a Master of Fine Arts degree in sculpture/studio art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2006 and a Bachelor of Arts from Colorado College in 2001. He is the founder and director of Adjunct Positions, an artist-run gallery and project space in the historic, residential neighborhood of Highland Park in northeastern L.A.

Prince's artist's statement reads: "Inhabiting real and fictional space in ways that seek to be generative and to generate interruptions within these spaces. Researching the boundaries of things, ideas, places, how one thing transforms into another and moves through space, through disciplines; what changes and what is left over. Working within peripatetic social space; rooted in exchange of literal and symbolic transactions; objects, gestures, ideas, relationships Finding space to move in between these ideas: nature and synthesis, ephemera and form, abstraction and immediacy. Making imaginary things to be placed in non-fictional places and vice-versa."

An artist presentation will be held at 1 p.m. Monday in NIC's Boswell Hall Room 156 followed by a gallery walk at 4 p.m. and an opening reception from 5-7 p.m. The exhibit is free and open to the public. Gallery hours are from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Fridays.

Information: 769-3276 or www.davidprince.org