Sight/ Insight will be at the Stutz Art Space from November 6-25, 2009. The show incorporates a variety of styles ranging from abstract slashes of paint, abstract quilted fabric, exaggerated recognizable forms, jewelry, and paintings and photographs that display clearly recognizable subjects. The artwork is juxtaposed leading the viewer to flow back and forth between the styles creating a dialogue amongst this diverse set of visual ideas. It is a conversation between eleven different artists, with different modes of visually communication, and different perspectives on the same subject.
The curator, Carol L Myers, chose artists whose work fit the theme of ‘inspired places’. Carol herself has lately focused on drawings. She states that her “vocabulary is natural form, but inspired place happens between pencil and paper.” She finds that drawing is a form of praying. I was attracted to one of her quilted painting pieces entitled, Boardwalk. The painting in the work gives the piece a sense of space and light. On top of the painting, sewn rectangular shapes overlap and break up the space, while the process of sewing the material draws the fabric and adds slight texture.
Below I’ve chosen a few of the types of work represented at the show:
Photography: Ginny Taylor Rosner speaks through her abandoned building photos in South Stairwell. The stairway leads upward from the bottom right side of the page. Light is entering from the landing at the top of the stairs in the upper left corner. The image beckons the viewer to enter, walk up the stairs and into the light.
Abstract: Kate Oberreich’s collage, Map of New York, (on right above) is about repetition. There is a small section of a city map in the piece. The map contains repeated rectangular city blocks. There are repeated circles in the upper left part of the work. Simple vines with repeated leaves flow around the map. Even a few drips in the piece seem to repeat themselves in color and shape.
Surreal: Home, by Lydia Burris, is a collage that juxtaposes a home and a tree in a forest with the light shining through the trees paralleling the warm light shining out of the windows of the home.
Landscape: The gallery also holds a collection of landscapes that are produced with varying levels of abstraction. These invite the viewer to walk into nature in a place of trees, water, and immense skies. At least one of the landscapes is a piece of jewelry by artist Leigh Dunnington-Jones entitled Sunrise on Central Avenue. Look at both the front and the back of this piece.
Other artists who are not previously mentioned:
Susan Brewer
Karen Land
Colleen Lauter
Susan Mauck
Jerry Points
Martha Vaught
Julia Zollman Wickes
Join the conversation about inspired places starting this coming First Friday November 6, 2009.
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