Wickford Art Association Gallery
36 Beach St, North Kingstown, RI 02852
Gallery Phone Number (401) 294-6840
Spring All-Media Show & Sale
"A- L" Members Show, Part 1
March 20 - April 15, 2009
Featuring
artwork by Wickford Art Association Members
that have surnames starting with the letters A - L
Juror: Izabella Gordon Casselman
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March 20, 6 - 8 p.m. |
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Juror's Comments
Juror: Izabella Gordon Casselman
Making art is hard. If you don’t have an inspiration, then you need to come up with an idea, and decided what medium or mediums you are going to use. Of course you probably aren’t sure if your current abilities are up to your vision and then again you may be using the hunt and peck way of coming up with a direction of what you may want. So making art is hard, hard work - even when its inspired and going smoothly.
In the end it’s a matter of choices for both the artist and for a judge of an art show -- some choices based on knowledge and some based on nothing more than “I know what I like”.
There were many wonderful pieces of works in this show. Indeed there were many varieties of medias which also added to the difficulty of making my picks. In the end chose art that moved me or elected a visceral response out of me.
The watercolor by J. Lebovitz, Orkney Isle at Twilight captured in an almost surreal way the dramatic sense of solitude at twilight. In a relatively small space the artist shows the timelessness and the instant before total darkness. A small painting full of an emotional moment.
When I saw the photograph titled Rusty Rope by S. King all of my tactile senses just went on alert. I truly felt I could just run my finger tips over all of the textures and feel the large area of roughness to the small areas of prickliness. The recess before the rope made me just want to put my fingers right into the shallow depth and just play in these textures.
John Drought’s oil painting The Bird’s Nest could be considered a study of warm and cool. A birds nest made from short warm color strokes surrounded the cool blue egg. The cool colors of the sky peek through and play between the warm colors of the nesting materials. Along with the color interplay is the sense of impermanence of the nest. Just one major gust of wind would swirl it all away and leave the egg without its home.
Sandra Gauvin’s watercolor titled The Birch Tree - has an open and airy feel to it. The handling of the watercolor is breezy and quick and has captured the air within all the colors . The point of view of trees from beneath created an wonderful entrance into the view above.
Photographer William Brennan in Tree Trunks has taken the images of staid old trees and has focused on the calligraphy of movement that are tree trunks themselves. The beautiful bends of the trunks and the texture only reinforces the stability and the feel of permanency that old trees have along with the elegancy their movement into the ages.
Congratulations to all in this exhibition.
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday through Saturday, 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. and
Sunday from
Noon - 3:00p.m.