Attention to Detail
Curated by Lin Lisberger
September 14 - November 11
Opening Reception: September 14, 5 - 7pm
Featured Artists
Curator’s Statement
Featured
Attention to Detail is comprised of the work of four artists who are pursuing abstract ideas through careful representation of detail. The elements that combine to create a piece of art can be effusive, compact, colorful, precise, slapdash, or formal. The combined result is evocative of a place, an idea, or a moment, and celebrates the act of the hand.
Grace DeGennaro creates minimal compositions based on traditional symbols and sacred geometry. Each picture plane depicts a deliberate layering of transparent shapes and collections of opaque dots and beads of color, exploring forms and mathematical proportions such as the Golden Mean and Fibonacci sequences. While striving for symmetry and precision in her work, each piece is rendered subtly asymmetric by the artist’s hand and, thus, evokes a humanistic abstract narrative.
Beth Galston’s large inkjet prints of scanned decaying leaves take the detail of a moment in time and explode it to bring the viewer fully into that moment. In collecting the leaves and bringing them indoors, she stops the process of decay and captures the moment through a high-resolution scanning process. These enveloping nature portraits astonish with their intricacies.
Lydia Ricci makes tiny sculptures from collected scraps and often creates stop motion videos using those sculptures. Her carefully constructed objects and videos have an enthusiastic quality and allude to our everyday existence. Ricci’s work evokes humor and poignancy, and her narrowing down of scale draws the viewer deeply into their own consciousness.
I am a wood carver who tells stories by combining figural, architectural, and realistic images by manipulating scale, form, color, and juxtapositions. This attentional narrowing down and refinement of elements leads to abstraction and allows the viewer their own story.
- Lin Lisberger
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