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Things Behind the Sun
“Things Behind the Sun” consists of several panels placed together in a grid. “It is part of a body of work in which I continue to reflect on sense of place,” said Rutherford. “They [the pieces] work together to reference land and sky but not of a particular place, rather the feeling of somewhere.”
Rutherford used the Scottish landscape as inspiration for the chosen color scheme and borrowed the title of her piece from a song by Nick Drake.
“They are abstract atmospheric panels that use layers of color to be emotive of a particular sense of place, i.e. the feeling of cloudy rainy days, haziness or fog, the chill of a damp foggy day, the heaviness of a threatening storm,” said Rutherford. “Each panel can be viewed as an entity in its own right but is designed as part of a whole.”
"Things Behind the Sun," by Elaine Rutherford
Elaine Rutherford’s piece, “Things Behind the Sun,” served as an inspiration for the artwork for the inauguration of MaryAnn Baenninger, 14th president of the College of Saint Benedict. Rutherford is an associate professor of art at CSB/SJU.
Background
Rutherford grew up on the West Coast of Scotland. She studied at Cumbria College of Art and Design in Carlisle, England and obtained her bachelor of fine arts degree from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee, Scotland. Rutherford moved to Las Cruces, New Mexico in 1992 to do her graduate work at New Mexico State University.