Tag Archive for ‘poetry’
Words in Pictures: Mary McFarlane Espinosa
Mary McFarlane Espinosa’s music is an equal and bittersweet mix of triumph and sadness, exultation and struggle. Her visual art, especially the assemblage work, mirrors that.
Words in Pictures: Jennifer Rivera
Jennifer Rivera’s references (often abstract but occasionally somewhat representational) go deeper than the surface to mine what’s really being said in the poems which inspired her.
With and Against the Grain: Shannon White
Shannon White’s work is inspired by graffiti, but not of the confrontational/territorial sort. It’s definitely of the “I can’t help but create, and I hope you’ll stop and look” variety.
A Collector of Moments: Chelsea Herzberg
Chelsea Herzberg’s photographs are infused with a palpable antihurry, a purposeful and determined halting of time at just the right instant.
Artistic Evolution: Jean Van Harlingen
No matter the medium, Jean Van Harlingen’s eye for shape, color and texture (even in the two-dimensional works) comes through loud and clear in her show at VALA Gallery in Mission.
Time Signatures: Kelly Porter
Some works are obviously influenced by straight, flowing rhythms, others by more irregular meters. The concept of repetition is pronounced at times, subtle at others, but always there.
Face to Faces: David Gant
Gant, whose portraits take up the huge north room at Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, is a master at capturing his subjects’ personalities in short (2-4 hours) sittings. He executes the works in a bold, quick style — see Sean Kelley, above, for an example — and he’s prolific, with more than a hundred works on display at Leedy-Voulkos through the 28th of August.
Theatre of Paint: Patrick Duegaw
It’s likely that each viewer of Patrick Duegaw’s “The Wrong Tools (for the Job)” will come away with a different set of plot lines, which would make this an ideal show for seeing with a group and discussing after. Based on people from Duegaw’s life, the subjects of his large-scale paintings do have their own stories, but finding visual clues in the work is the audience’s pleasure.
Layers upon Layers within Layers: Terri Rogers
Besides underscoring the theme of the wall hanging, the augmentations also serve as entry points into Rogers’ calm, meditative composition (another common thread, so to speak, which runs throughout her work). The layers in this show aren’t merely visual or structural, though.
(ARTKC365) A Marvell-ous Collection: Leslie Norman Hubble
Shadows play key roles in the acrylic paintings that make up Hubble’s portion of this month’s group show at Westport Coffeehouse. And in keeping with her penchant for working with a palette which includes the felt as well as the seen, those shadows are often emotional as well as visual.
WHEN AN ARTIST TAKES 'A VERY LONG WALK'
Artist John Raux by Ashley Brown Photograph of John Raux by Tim Samoff Once a month, he hiked at night when the moon had waxed to full-term, its vivid pregnancy illuminating what paths he could find. Like a lonesome tinker with his pack full of rattling wares, he stumbled down mist-bandaged inclines and found purchase [...]
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