The Friends of the Sunriver Area Library present an exhibit featuring glass works by Nancy Becker and mixed media works by Cheryl Griffiths.

A native of the San Francisco East Bay area of California, Griffiths has lived in Minneapolis, Mexico City and the Boston area for 28 years before moving to Sunriver. Her work explores the tension between the natural world and the growth of consumerism. She uses figurative elements from nature as symbols and by placing them in a different context, creates a visual metaphor for a “man versus nature” conflict. She works in several media, including oil stick, collage, encaustic and monoprint.

Art is a language of the soul, and the art medium in which Becker is proficient is hot glass. Glass is a material that is challenging by its very nature. “Hot glass is neither a solid nor a liquid,” she says. “It offers unique challenges at all temperatures.”

Becker has been a self-employed hot glass artist since 1985, and has owned and operated her own hot glass studio since 1992. Her body of work consists of blown work, fused work and kiln cast sculptural pieces. She often incorporates other materials into her sculptural pieces. Hot work can be blown or sculpted using molten clear glass as the primary building material. With that base, Becker then layers in color and design elements. Torches can extend the time the glass can be out of the reheat furnace and can be used to heat a specific area.

The exhibit opens November 6 at the Sunriver area branch library, and will continue through January 26, 2013.

541-312-1080. A portion of any sales from the Library gallery directly benefits the Friends of the Sunriver Area Library, and helps the Friends’ efforts to fund special programs at the Library. The Sunriver Area Library is located at 56855 Venture Lane in Sunriver.