"OTHER WORLDS"
OPENING RECEPTION
THURSDAY MAY 8 6 -8pm
The Finn will present the work of five artists in their sixth and final show of the 2013-2014 season.
The exhibit of sculpture, installation, paintings and prints featuring works by Monica Banks. Kees de Waal, Fran Forman, Carol Schwartz and the late Guy Stevens will have an opening reception on Thursday May 8 from 6-8pm and will be on view through June 18, 2014.
Monica Banks, an award winning sculptor, has permanent public works in the Bronx, Binghamton, NY and Charlotte, NC. Banks has had many solo shows and has been included in a large number of group exhibitions. Her "Cloud Series" uses childhood toys, trinkets and jewelry in tangles of wire that float from the ceiling.
Greenwich resident Kees de Waal, won first prize in a national art contest when he was just 14, in his native Holland. He has founded a chain of retail men's clothing stores in Europe. and after retiring formed the de Waal Foundation to improve the lives of children in ten Latin American countries.
" I think of myself as an artist who gives life to a work of art by capturing an emotion and setting it free on paper." His art of fantasy and delight is shown around the globe.
Photographer and mixed media artist, Fran Forman, inhabits a world of dreams and memory blending painting with her photos creating dream landscapes. " I invite the viewer to engage with me in an imaginative discourse and to enter my world." Forman is a Resident Scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University. A frequent award and grant winner her widely exhibited work in presently on tour in China. She is represented by galleries from Newport Beach to Beijing.
Sculptor Carol Schwartz, uses layers of laminated and doweled together lumber, working them into life-size human figures. Building them up in layers, she carves them into shapes and painting the surfaces. In her recent work she has ventured into creating gigantic handbags made of plaster soaked burlap. Schwarz exhibits her work through out the Eastern seaboard.
Guy Stevens, a native of Greenville, SC who passed away recently, used flamboyant color, whimsy and flat lyrical shapes to create his other worldly dreamlike narratives, reminiscent of both primitive and impressionistic art. " I am an intuitive expressive colorist," Stevens explained. " I strive to give the viewer a sense of an uplifting, inner connection to my images." Stevens worked all over the world making his artwork.
