| Artemisia Gallery on Thu, 18 Apr 2002 21:38:02 +0200 (CEST) |
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| [Nettime-bold] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - MAY EXHIBITIONS |
EXHIBITONS
Main Gallery: FRANK BORN (Painting)
San Francisco artist Frank Born makes narrative paintings in which
lean and spare figures occupy a psychological landscape. Born's work
distills and expands the understanding of universally experienced human
emotions; loss, suffering, joy, yearning...the way we anticipate, hesitate
and often miss the moment to communicate. The honest and direct personal
expression in these paintings invites the viewer to enter into an at-times
alienated, but often reflective, world, and recognize it as our own.
Gallery A: CARA JAYE (Mixed Media
Photography)
Acting as both artist and model, Washington artist Carla Jaye
explores the image of the nude female through her combined media works.
Jaye mixes photographic processes, drawing, painting, stitching, and collage.
Incorporating winged figures, birds, insects, and domestic settings and
activities, Jaye explores the theme of polarities; the beautiful and the
grotesque, flying and falling, creating and destroying.
Gallery B: LAURIE ELIZABETH TALBOT
HALL (Installation / Photo)
Laurie Elizabeth Talbot Hall addresses the dual nature of ordinary
perceptions. The rational and the magical are equally present in
Talbot's view. The Iowa artist uses photography and installation to explore
the imagery from dreams, day-dreams, and the spontaneous arisings of the
mind. Hall believes that it is in these states that order and reason loosen
their grip as the dominant organizing principle of the mind, allowing aesthetic
resolutions to conflicts.
Gallery C: ALICE SHADDLE (Collage)
Chicago artist Alice Shaddle draws on landscape and its attendant issues
as resource material for her collaged landscapes. Weeds, brambles,
voracious vines, leaves and trees, yield up images of looming figures and
emerging faces. Recently, Shaddle journeyed to southwestern Virginia
to study the voracious vine known as cudweed. Working in a process
which echoes her subject, Shaddle transforms the picture plane bit by bit
with organic and fantastic imagery.
Gallery D: SARAH CRISP (Encaustic)
Sara Crisp works in the ancient medium of encaustic in which pigments
and wax are fused by heat. The thin translucent layers are embedded with
images of plants, insect forms, bones, and skulls. Within each piece,
Crisp layers some combination of letters, numbers, grids, and natural forms.
Through her work, the Maine artist selects and catalogues those small aspects
of the natural world which intersect with the human-made domain of symbol
and sign.
PRESS (definitely) INVITED!
For information or press packets, contact:
Tricia Alexander, Gallery Coordinator
312 / 226-7323