In the Tevis Gallery
On View January 19 - March 10, 2012
Artists Reception: January 20, 5:30-7:30 pm
Artists possess a visual vocabulary of images that are familiar to them and appear in the majority of their work. It can be something as small as the brush stroke of paint, visual metaphors or iconography. This visual vocabulary is enhanced by time, emotion and place. Vincent Van Gogh’s famous brush work stayed the same but his imagery changed as he moved from the Netherlands to the South of France. The influence of Japanese woodblock prints was instrumental in the way he designed his compositions.
The artists in this exhibit have been, either, living and creating here in the United States and have moved or travelled to another country, or, have been living in another country and have moved here.
Wayne McWilliams, from Westminster, spent time in Japan and is a retired professor of Japanese History. Although he is self taught, Asian imagery infuses his work. He has recently turned from painting to wood carving and is creating sculptures with the serene simplicity of a Buddhist monk.
Ceramic artist, Patrick Timothy Caughy, travelled to Asissi, Italy for a pilgrimage. His already cerebral raku art is now infused with influences from the murals of St. Francis and monastic life in Italy.
Leticia Resendez Quintana and Francisco Loza, from Mexico, have been carrying on with traditional craft from their country. Leticia creates work in metal tooling and Francisco uses the traditional yarn painting craft called estambre. Both of these artists, influenced by their Mexican visual vocabulary, are adding hints of rural and urban life in the United States to their work.
Fernando Alvarez, from Colombia, paints still life and landscape. These images transcend time and place. We are familiar with these two genres of painting, yet Fernando infuses them with an aura of his native country, giving the viewer a sense of at once being “here” and being “there.
To round out the exhibit, the photography of Mal Druskin will put the viewers close up and personal with the faces of the world.