Rather than presenting a factual reality, a link between materiality and imagination can be established to create a place where fiction and reality are balanced and past and present fused. Arthur Kvarnstrom creates a new, subjective reality in watercolor through the act of painting, choosing colors, and combining forms and shapes to bring out a world of imagination, emotion and feelings. Susan Grucci’s oil painting shows the bright green reeds that ebb and flow on top and beneath the surface of the water, bringing peace and contentment that infiltrates waking moments and dreams with yearning. Holly Meeker Rom’s collage and watercolor painting represents a world as a pageant of green looking out onto the unknown. Ĭonnecting to the natural world is essential for psychological, physical and cognitive well-being and can create a healing escape. Fran Beallor’s intricate aerial glacier drawing appears to be abstract but is in fact a realistic rendering, creating an intimate connection into its impossible blue depths. Lynn Friedman’s atmospheric oil painting imagines experiencing the force of nature from above, depicting a multitude of natural phenomena at once. Marianne Barcellona’s collage of painted paper depicts a disturbing and turbulent place on perhaps another planet, a thunderous and tumultuous environment with ominous rocks, and a terrifyingly threatening sky. Eleanor Goldstein’s watercolor washes of blacks, blues and whites depict an environment where there is true silence, natural darkness, and natural light, evoking a demanding, hypnotic, and incredibly moving experience. Surrounding oneself by primeval nature can be a powerful and emotional encounter, emphasizing nature's control over us. Aida Markiw imagines another world far away in the Universe through her depiction of abstracted particles in motion. Kristin Reed layers radiating geometric patterns in her painting to explore inter-dimensionality, a place in the grid of consciousness where our world resonates with another simultaneous place that overlaps-normally hidden from our view. Through Karen Fitzgerald’s ambient application of paint onto a circular surface, she makes visible the universal interconnected energies within our material and spirit worlds. Matter and spirit are deeply intertwined, evoking a sense of something more than what our eyes can see a restless shifting of light and energy indicating something beyond our physical world, something metaphysical. Pearl Rosen Golden’s painting depicts a worrisome sky that questions interpretation of our real and unreal quality of life. Barbara Slitkin’s painted garden features mysterious figures that dwell in a realm outside of ours. Gale Rothstein’s assemblage of natural and industrial elements reflects another planet, walking through millennia of evolutions and transformations, everywhere and nowhere at once. With Sandra Taggart’s painted sea and starry skyscape she creates an invented place as a meditation on the environment. Reflecting on universal elements of reality as well as abstract and intangible concepts, these artists depict ideas of identity, time, and space through their works, seeking to understand fundamental truths about their relationships to the world.Īrtworks have the ability to travel to the cosmos and other landscapes, traversing life forms, creating dimensions reminiscent of, yet outside of what we know. In this exhibition 25 artists meditate on the meaning of “place”, exploring the physical, philosophical and spiritual interpretations. Elsewhere is defined as “ in, at, or to some other place or other places”.
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