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FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Please List
New Viridian Artists
and Affiliates
Exhibition
December 28 - January 15, 2011
Reception: Saturday, January 8, 2011 4-7pm
Mary Wells * Carol
Brookes * Katherine
Ellinger Smith *
Sheila Smith * Lynne
Johnson * Lynne
Mayocole *
Rosemary Lyons *
Bernice Sokol Kramer *
Chelsea,
NYC: Viridian Artists is pleased to present new work by new
Viridian Artists
& Affiliates. The exhibition features a wide variety of
art by these
exciting artists recently represented by Viridian Artists. The
exhibit opens
Tuesday, December 28th and extends through Saturday, January
15th
with a reception Saturday, January 8, 4-7 PM.
Each
artist in this exhibit has been given approximately 10 linear
feet of wall
space to present a mini solo of their recent art. Carol
Brookes and Mary Wells
are yet to have a solo show at Viridian, so this will give
viewers an
introduction to their work which will be featured in solo
exhibits next season.
The other six artists are Viridian Affiliates, some like
Rosemary Lyons,
Katherine Ellinger Smith and Lynne Johnson returning to the
gallery roster.
The works by
Carol Brookes
are from her Construct Series, a group of frame-like boxes
which are in essence
wall sculptures, material driven and inspired by everyday
objects. When
arranged together, these ordinary materials are
transformed, becoming
precious and jewel-like.
Katherine Ellinger Smith is showing 2 large
scale polyester film images, one entitled "WATCH OUT FOR THE
DEER",
inspired by an article about deer attacking students at
Southern Illinois
University Carbondale who were supposedly taking shortcuts
through a wooded
area where the deer resided... "I find it amazing how similar we are to
animals, emotionally, in some ways...there goes the image of
deer as being
non-violent and disney like…"
Mary Wells creates
paper mosaics of cut acrylic painted
papers, which because of their intricacy and realism, appear
at first glance to
be photographic images. These delicately precise collages go
far beyond the
usual concept of cut paper and roam into the realm of
ultra-realism.
Bernice Sokol
Kramer creates
sculptural works of recycled newspapers and other mixed media
sometimes
painted, sometimes not. Her standing and hanging forms speak
both of the figure
and all that covers it.
Lynne Mayocole usually thinks of her art as a sort
of story. This
one features "Screaming Mimis", small wall sculptures,
scattered
around watercolors celebrating the vibrant summer last year in
Provence. "Are the "Mimis" celebrating a
season
seen last year but far in our snowy future? My stories leave
interpretation up to the viewer!"
Sheila Smith's
digital photographs
are from a series of images taken of New York City at night that
often approach the abstract. The series is entitled "N.Y.C. After Dark", but
the light that the artist has captured, speaks of the movement
and excitement
of the city at night.
Lynne
Johnson's prints and drawings focus on texture and on the many
forms line can
take, both in the natural landscape and in the man-made
landscape of waste and
recycling. She is concerned in her work with those forms &
textures that
bear witness to the effects of nature and time passing, as
well as the odd
juxtaposition of discarded objects of humans with natural
forms which she feels
mirror the randomness of life. Johnson was also a winner in
Viridian's last
Juried Exhibition.
Rosemary
Lyons, a Buffalo NY artist, has
been making contemporary illuminated
manuscripts with political overtones for a number of years.
The four in this
exhibition are among her most recent comments on culture and
language.
Gallery hours:
Tuesday through Saturday 12 - 6PM
For further
information please contact Vernita Nemec, Director at 212
414 4040 or
info@viridianartists.com
