‘Visionaries’
featuring Artwork from New York City
Art Works Gallery would like
to share with you a new collection of artwork from the
New York Art Expo! The Visionaries exhibit runs
thru May 21st, 2005.
The paintings of Pietro Adamo are abstract celebrations of the artist’s admiration for the “unpredictable and inexhaustible record of life”. Adamo abandons the monotony of conventional rendering of geometric forms through his textured surfaces and rough contours. In his passion to convey emotion, Adamo intimately works his canvases both applying and removing pigment to create a tactile quality. Layers upon layer of vibrant colours dynamically emerge and recede within the canvas. This juxtaposition of presence is what gives Adamo’s work its mood and sensational quality.
The shape of the land has always influenced
Loretta Shumate Banderas work,whether in a representational or abstract manner. The landscape and human interaction with it has always been an inspiration for her work. Architectural forms and how they have affected the land is another common theme and source of abstract forms. She finds that for her own work, the most successful abstract images come from a kernel of a representational image. Even the most non-representational imagery has its basis somewhere in a landscape or structural form.
Fascinated with the grandeur of formal gardens, Starlie Sokol Hohne strives to recreate lush and rich landscapes by building upon colour copies of actual gardens. Incorporating materials, such as tissue paper into the work, she creates depth and texture. Her colours evoke a luminious sensuality. The work whisks the viewer into a region reminiscent of a time past when formal gardens were found around every corner.
Nela Solomon works mostly with mixed media on canvas. She is primarily drawn to painting broad and vibrant abstracts. Not forsaking her rural and liberated upbringing, however, Nela introduced her own degree of spontaneity – painting bold, vast, and vibrant spaces that are as much about nature as they are about abstraction. Indeed, some of her paintings even seem to be a struggle between the two styles, as Nela often blends sharp colors and impersonal geometrics with soft shades of organic, burgeoning still life. The result is a uniquely tense artwork in which the organic and natural elements of the paintings seem to struggle with the more modern, abstract concepts around them.
Art Works consultants would be pleased to answer any of your questions about the artists and the availability of their work. Please call 604.688.3301 for details.
