Points of view
dal 27/11/2007 al 27/12/2007
Segnalato da
Mary Barnes
Cecile Chong
Janet Culbertson
Joergen Geerds
Sheila Goloborotko
Griselda Healy
Lara Hill
Anders Knutsson
Karen Roth
Sylvia Sleigh
27/11/2007
Points of view
Tabla Rasa Gallery, New York
A broad and offbeat exhibition of interpretations of the landscape genre by 10 artists. Artwork ranges from meticulously rendered portraits of thousand year-old trees by Anders Knutsson, to densely textured, incised, and layered city roof-scapes by Karen Roth.
Opening on November 28, 2007 Tabla Rasa Gallery presents “POINTS of VIEW,”
a broad and offbeat exhibition of interpretations of the landscape genre by
ten artists: Mary Barnes, Cecile Chong, Janet Culbertson, Joergen Geerds,
Sheila Goloborotko, Griselda Healy, Lara Hill, Anders Knutsson, Karen Roth and
Sylvia Sleigh.
True to the spirit of their previous exhibitions, curator/directors Audrey
and Joseph Anastasi selected thematically related artwork from artists with
distinctly personal points of view.
Artwork ranges from meticulously rendered portraits of thousand year-old
trees by Anders Knutsson, to densely textured, incised, and layered city
roof-scapes by Karen Roth.
Renowned Feminist painter, Sylvia Sleigh, most noted for her groundbreaking
male nudes and lovingly rendered portraiture, here applies some of her
signature patterning to vast pebbled beach vistas.
Griselda Healy looks across the New York Harbor and freshly paints the
tugboats in the water with masterful simplicity and respect for the pure craft of
oil painting. Other works from this series were recently exhibited in a solo
exhibition at the Staten Island Museum.
The mixed media sculptural works of Sheila Goloborotko are fragmented
landscapes, at once abstract, urban and rural.
Janet Culbertson's response to the worldwide environmental changes that she
has witnessed, was to paint the Industrial Park Series using silver paint,
pulverized iridescent pigments, and dimensional collage materials that would
parallel the actual detritus of today’s industrialized, toxic environment. Her
littered and glittering surfaces are a powerful depiction of urban decay.
Lara Hill explores environmental and social tragedy through her creation of
mixed media collage. Her predominantly black and white images of urban
architecture and anatomical parts are constructed from photo clippings found in
the news, mass media, and personal photography, with areas of expressive
paint and pencil.
Both Mary Barnes and Cecile Chong blend abstraction with natural elements.
Using bold forms rendered with subtle grace, Ms. Barnes reaches beyond the
conventional surface description of traditional landscape, creating work that
speaks of a life force. Ms. Chong combines transparently layered encaustic
with controlled linear renderings of childhood, transporting the viewer's
sensibilities from surface to suggestion, and back again.
Cecile Chong, Farewell, Encaustic, transferred image & mixed media (oil,
powder pigment, volcano ash, rice paper, and silver, copper and/or gold leaf)
on wood, 16 x 11 inches, High resolution image attached.
With disturbing sharpness , Joergen Geerds presents oversized panoramic
chromogenic prints of iconic New York City landmarks, saturated with luminosity.
Using long exposures, he turns the populace into ghostly shadows (or make
them completely disappear) while giving rich details in otherwise underexposed
areas with thousands of sources for illumination. Panoramas draw the viewer
into the grand urban landscape of New York.
Image: Cecile Chong
Artists Reception: Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Tabla Rasa Gallery
224 48 Street - New York