Event Details
The Sylvia White Gallery Art Exhibit
July 30 - August 23, 2008
Sylvia White Gallery, 1783 Main Street, Ventura
Event Description
The Sylvia White Gallery presents four solo exhibitions by Rebecca Rutstein, Thomas Jackson, Lori Cozen-Geller, and Harrison Storms.
July 30 - August 23, 2008
OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, August 2, 2008, 2-4pm
Gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday, noon to 5:00 p.m.
About the Artists:
Always a poetic painter, Rutstein's work possesses touches of mysticism amidst the hard science of geology. This Philidelphia based artist references grand underwater vistas, primordial landscapes and geologic forces which become metaphors for interpersonal relationships. These densely layered spaces hover between atmospheric and graphic, linear and volumetric, decorative and organic, solid and ethereal, abstract and real.
Venice, California sculptor, Cozen-Geller's large scale wall and standing works capture the emotions of the heart and mind, placing them into a frozen visual form, captured within space. The dimensions of each piece, along with the color and finish represent the power of the emotion that the piece was born out of, dictating the specifications of how that art is developed.
Each of Jackson's photographs combine multiple, often iconic, Americana images to create an open-ended visual narratives that reflect the mood and feeling of our era, as well as America's channel-changing attention span and state of mind. These ambiguous, sometimes voyeuristic works deal with recurring themes that explore the human condition, the environment (both natural and manmade), and consumerism. Thomas Jackson is based out of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Los Angeles painter Storms' latest series of figures, called John's Canyon, deal mysteriously in recreating the anatomically correct, ideally proportioned human specimen. A realistic depiction of a standing figure is literally ground away in his process, leaving nothing but a raw, many-layered smudge that bears an unsettling resemblance to violently abraded skin. As compelling, absorbing and rewarding as this human body can be, Storms seems to suggest, it's always a short step back to dust.
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