July 17 - Oct 14 10am - 3pm or by appointment reception Wed, July 30, 5:30-7:30pm
McKinley Art Solutions invited Tesia Blackburn, artist, teacher and author, to select artists for this exhibition based on their passion for producing provocative abstraction. Valerie Corvin, exhibiting on Floor 3, shares "The series of paintings in this show are created from images I took of a particularly beautiful and intricate tree I looked at during a Pilates & Yoga Retreat from a second story studio in Chacala, Mexico. I use colorful contrast, mark making and layering of color as I explore forms that attract my eye in nature."
Floor 4 artist Ruth Kolman Brophy uses intense color and a swooping meandering line to impart joy, love and a zest for life. Her strong sense of design and balance is influenced by 20th century modern design. "Color is just delicious," says Floor 5 artist Lynn Glenn, "It is my world, it starts everything going. I spread it on my palette and I feel my creative juices flowing, it lights my life".
The work of Elise Marshall, showing on Floor 6, draws inspiration from Richard Diebenkorn and Mark Rothko. Each color has an effect on the color adjacent to it and also the color layers above and below. Within each piece, contrasts of hue, intensity, warm and cool create complexity and visual tension in a serene composition. Tina Pressler's work on floor 7 is based literally and conceptually on the circle. "Painting provides a platform of continuation, as does the circle. It renders a set of points equidistant from a fixed center, a process that forms a connected whole by continuously repeating itself. This rhythm and repetition invites a practice of working in cycles, each painting setting the stage for the subsequent canvas, always anticipating the next layer in an effort to create a field of coherence."
Public and artist reception: Wednesday, Jul 30 5:30 - 7:30pm, Free
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