SAVE THE DATE!
There will be a Gallery Talk with all five artists on Sunday March 1, at 2pm.
All are welcome!
"INTERIORS"
Opening Thursday January 29 from 6-8pm
We had a terrific opening last night with about 160 visitors celebrating our artists...
Daniel Bohman
Nicole Cohen
Echo Eggebrecht
Beth Livensperger
Roxa Smith
Artists have long been interested in depicting interiors - whether to prove their ability to create three-dimensional space, a love of objects, or still life - or perhaps a desire to create a setting injected with political, religious or personal ideas. The five artists in "INTERIORS" go beyond simple graphic achievement to explore real expression. Steeped in the tradition of Van Gogh's iconic painting, " Bedroom in Arles" , these artists are interested in the psychological exploration of interior space that exists between representation and abstraction. Familiar spaces are turned unpredictable, edgy, flattened or unstable, yet have their own logic and arrangement.
Nicole Cohen's videos bring together past and present. Each begins with the stillness of a historical period interior and is boldly interrupted by new digital animation. The overlay provides a new narrative of mystery, humor or excitement as old collides with new.
Beth Livensperger's focus is on notions of spatial organization. Objects and how they are arranged or displayed make us question our relationship to public interior settings. Objects appear and disappear or are bisected to block our view . Paint inselt becomes a screen or barrier between viewer and image.
Painter Daniel Bohman's seemingly familiar rooms are artificial spaces featuring collaged elements of emotional significance. He further disorients the viewer by blotting out or masking off areas to become "thought bubbles" that distance us from totally inhabiting his interiors.
The surreal or inexplicable is explored in Echo Eggebrecht's intimate interiors. They seem to dipict an event- a scene that is out of order or pushing toward a memory, but doesn't quite make sense. Filled with painstaking detail of commonplace objects, plants,, and personal symbols, the artist's painted world melds with the viewer's own narrative.
Roxa Smith infuses the everyday world with extraordinary beauty. Her richly patterned surface and bold color engulf the viewer. The hyper-clarity of objects in Roxa Smith's interiors is flattened with a deceptive perspective. These intricate, domestic spaces signify " home" and its inhabitants, yet the people are absent.
The curators, Tracy McKenna and Kirsten Pitts will present a Gallery Talk with "INTERIORS" artists on Sunday March 1 at 2pm in the gallery and will be on view through March 11, 2015.
All artwork is for sale with a portion of the proceeds going to The Friends of Greenwich Library.
