2002 Exhibition
Schedule
Artists Choose
Artists, January 23 - February 28, 2003.
Six-person group show. Three artists who have
previously exhibited at the Courthouse Gallery each
introduce to our audience a new, emerging artist whose
work they admire. Sharon Bates chooses
Molly O’Reilly; Nancy Brett
chooses Robert Berlind; Stephan Lack chooses
Charles Parness.
Sharon Bates
Molly O'Reilly
Nanct Brett
Robert Berlind
Stephen Lack
Charles Parness |
Paintings
by Roger Boyce, March
21 - April 26, 2002. Boyce’s influences include pictographic
evocations of Light from his Osage heritage, Buddhist paintings
and Christian icons. The
symbolism in his work shares a relationship with non-Western
traditions and contemporary abstraction inspired by spiritual
concerns. These
paintings, like the mystic traditions of the east, hold light,
shape and color as a mark of the realm of the unseen world.
Ethereal, luminous surfaces are created with as much as 15
layers of scrapped and reworked pigment, revealing colors
underneath neutral shapes, creating intense unnatural light.
Paintings
by Luisa Basnuevo,
drawings by Katie DeGroot & sculpture by Tomoko Hayakawa, May
16 – June 21, 2002. Seeds,
pods and petals are some of the elements found in these works.
In a variety of media each artist expresses a feeling of
delicacy toward natural forms.
Basnueva’s gestural paintings are inspired by the
shapes of eucalyptus seeds, hinting at fertility and abundance.
DeGroots large ink drawings of withered flowers express
the transience of existence.
Hayakawa’s abstracted porcelain plant-like forms are
thin, light and fragile, expressing her belief in tactile
curiosity as an instinctive desire.
Photography
by Mark Abrahamson & Jean-Paul Bourdier,
July 11 – August 16, 2002.
Two innovative photographers of landscape.
Abrahamson’s enigmatic images are aerial shots, and
reflect a painter’s sensibility.
The ambiguity of the captured moment and place presents a
scene that could be a macro or microcosm of our world’s
natural or industrial environment.
Bourdier sets the scene like a stage.
His seemingly traditional landscapes of deep natural
space are dramatically interrupted by startling artificial
insertions and colors. Both artists emphasize the two
dimensionality of the image through the patterns and textures in
the landscape they depict, and challenge notions of massive
scale and illusion.
Betsy
Brandt, Gabrielle Kanter & Han Sam Son, mixed media, September
5 – October 11, 2002. Betsy Brandt creates lace-like
sculptures made from hot glue and pigment.
Gabrielle Kanter creates intricately patterned surfaces
utilizing both weaving and quilt-making techniques with a
variety of materials. Han Sam Son recycles cardboard and
packaging material to build complex forms. Through
labor-intensive processes, and with common everyday materials
used in unusual ways, all three artists create works about
exaggerations, obsessions, and repetition.
The works reflect themes ranging from the mundane to the
monumental. Sometimes
sardonic, and sometimes meditative, they share an attention to
surface textures and push their materials beyond conventional
associations.
Handmade Furniture by Leonard Bellanca, paintings by Michael Clapper
& ceramics by Sue Holmes,
October 31 – December 6, 2002.
The work of these three artists, while diverse in medium,
is linked through its
architectonic qualities, its refinement of craft, its sense of
being informed by history, and its relationship to domestic
life. Bellauca’s
handmade furniture is mainly influenced by French neo-classical
work and, in turn, its influence on American design.
Clapper’s refined oils reflect the history of painting
everyday still life objects.
Holmes’s pottery vessels hint at Etruscan influences,
yet have an individual, contemporary feel.
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