October 20 - December 17, 2016 Reception: Thursday, October 20th, 6 to 8 pm
ICS2016ylworgrdprp. 30 x 42 x 19 inches.
Sydney Blum has used the idea of Icarus flying towards the sun as the impetus of her new work. Here, she attempts to describe and create the motion and sensation of flying but in solid form: an incongruity that is not lost on her. She juxtaposes and distorts colors and lines and shapes in such ways as to produce seemingly contradictory vibrating waves of energy in our consciousness. We see the form, the suggestion of a wing, a shield, an expanding and contracting grid underlaid with gradations of color. The flight that draws us through this complex undulating interplay of color, shapes, shadows and light takes us somewhere else. Towards the sun, perhaps. Into the unknown, certainly.
October 20 - December 17, 2016 Reception: Thursday, October 20th, 6 to 8 pm
Glacial 72 x 72 inches oil on canvas
Margaret Evangeline's long painting practice has been the result of devotion to the vulnerabilities of the discovery process, of finding one's way to significant content through maintaining a stance of openness to failure. Describing what Evangeline mindfully does and how she does it is to say that her paintings and sculpture resemble a flowing river or stream. Each time a viewer gazes at an Evangeline work the viewer steps into metaphorically resonating yet different waters. That same viewer remains aware that what is being perceived is poetically connected with everything else of the artist's work that has previously been experienced, or that one is likely to engage with in her as yet unrealized work. Through this context it becomes clear that Margaret Evangeline's abstractions have a singularly pronounced revalatory character that makes them uniquely unsettling and memorable.
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