» APRIL April 2 - 26

Reception: Friday, April 4, 5:30-7:30

GALLERY I

Jill Weber

Shifted Spaces

Jill Weber: “Shifted Spaces”

 

These paintings are based an urban scene created and defined by irregularly placed buildings, which the artist sees every day through her home windows.

Through dynamic compositions, Weber reduces the familiar to its essentials. She combines plans, elevations and perspectives to create diagrammatic and disorienting abstract paintings.

The high contrast surfaces—glossy dark against matte silver and intense colors—are constructed on many thin layers of gesso/plaster, whose layered structures are revealed through rubbing, sanding and scraping.

Pictured above: "Connector Diagram Blue," oil on baord, 36" x 36", 2008.

GALLERY II

Betsyann Duval

Super Models

Betsyann Duval: “Super Models”

 

In these large-scale drawings of iconic women who have shaped women’s collective identity in the 21st century, the artist asks: Did you imagine yourself as one of those stars of the 40's in their bias-cut silky slithers of sexuality, or did you relate to the activists of the 60's or rock stars at Woodstock?

Through drawing, Duval explores a group of women who have made bold, dynamic statements. Some are universally admired; others have been both vilified and lauded. All of them, Duval believes, are smart, sexy, and sassy. They are super models for young women striving to define their own sense of self.

The artist hopes they act as a counterweight to the corporate/media creations of Britney and Paris.

Pictured above: "Hillary Clinton," charcoal on baord, 32" x 40", 2008.