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20/7/2003

Final show

Viridian Artists, New York

2002-03 season

Viridian Artists is pleased to present the recent art of the Affiliate Artists of the gallery on July 22 through August 8, 2003. There will be a reception for the artists and their guests Wednesday, July 23, 3-6 pm.

Color, landscape & narrative all reside in the art of this diverse group. Many of these artists use landscape in interpretations ranging from abstract generalizations to the reality of seeing. Also, present in their diverse work is a shared sense of narrative expression whether in contextual meaning or suggestion and finally there is color to knock your socks off. Though many of these artists are painters, Viridian affiliate artists work in a range of materials including paint, photography, collage and mixed media.

Landscape in all its forms is present here.
Based in Switzerland, the artist Wingkwai Chan's lush watercolor paintings abstractly allude both to landscape and his Chinese ancestry. Barbara Gerard explores the harmonious relationship between woman and nature in her flatly painted but physically texturized pieces, using the contours of the female figure intertwined with landscape forms. Working very differently, AE Young Park, an artist living in Brooklyn, creates delicate mixed media works on paper utilizing sumi inks, charcoal & gouache suggesting landscapes and vegetation. Nancy Macina's pastel drawings are complex narrations that visually recapture her traveling experiences.
In a more abstract vein, Franco Pellegrino of Housatonic MA has been painting for more than 30 Years, using as a source of inspiration the highs & lows of life. Molly Avery Lawrence most recent exhibit of her narrative abstract paintings was entitled 'Angelic Warfare'. James Mascitelli sees his art as a 'sanitizing' of pop art & abstract expressionism in which he merges the two styles into his own form of post-modernist painting. dorothy DIERKS hourihan, a native of Georgia, studied early with Mark rothko, and is a formalist whose paintings are also expressionistic in manner. Rachel Stahl-Oktay also works abstractly, but much more minimally, often incorporating encaustic in her small paintings. Dellamarie Parrilli of Chicago creates abstract paintings which some feel share a spiritual link to Kandinsky and Malevich.
Whether working in oil pastel or watercolor or a host of other media, it is clear from viewing the art of Barbara Pennington of Gordo, Alabama that for her, color rules. Her aim is that her work be experienced with straight feeling and a sense of beauty that bypasses the analytical. The same is true in the art of Betty Thalheimer, a native Georgian, now New Yorker, who creates paintings on paper & canvas with swirling strokes of color that emote in a language all their own. Another artist enamored with color is Dan Rocha of Lowell Mass. His strict geometric shapes contrast with forms of liquid translucent color.
Though now residing in Litchfield Connecticut, Peggy Reventlow's early artistic roots began in Paris where she first studied art. A painter of colorful abstract work in the past, she promises to surprise us with new work in new media for this exhibit. Elizabeth Rhoads Read of Cedar Rapids, Iowa creates haunting works with the simplest of materials, most often using fibers in untraditional ways. Cmchevalier, based in London, intertwines elements from the natural world with the manmade to create collages & assemblages of a compelling unity all her own.
Sharon Woodruff of Webster Mass is a photographer whose travels as a Fulbright scholar and ethnomusicologist inspire her photographic approach. John Lamparski, also a photographer, works both in color and black and white. His current focus is on a series of color images of New York City.

Hours: Tues. - Sat., 10:30 a.m. - 6 p.m.

VIRIDIAN ARTISTS, INC.
530 West 25th Street #407
New York, NY 10001
Tel/Fax: 212-414-4040

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