Prisms of Perception is the 2 person show I have with fellow artist, Charles Katzenbach. The show opens on Friday, April 10th, and we will be holding our Artists Reception on Saturday, April 18th from 6 to 9 pm at the Gallery.
When Chuck and I were paired for this show, it seemed a bit of a conundrum - he paints abstract works on glass and mirrors, and I'm a realist. But as we worked together, we found some amazing similarities in our approach to why and how we paint. In particular, we both are inspired by the shifting light and atmospheric effects in nature, and we both work to achieve the illusion and feeling of these through multiple and shifting layers of light.
I'm offering a series of landscape and still life work that focuses how these light effects convey a particular mood, sense of place and time.
Prisims of Perception: Charles Katzenbach and Materese Roche runs from Friday, April 10th through Sunday, May 3rd. Artists Reception is being held Saturday, April 18th from 6 to 9 pm. The Artists Gallery, 32 Coryell Street, Lambertville, NJ. website link: The Artists Gallery, Lambertville, NJ
Images:
Charles Katzenback
Title: Struck
Oil on Glass
Materese Roche
Title: Still Life with Zinc
11 x 14
Oil on Canvas / Professionally Framed
$650
Available at the Artists Gallery or by contacting me directly
Friday, March 27, 2009
Prisms of Perception
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Materese it is amazing how these two paintings complement each other. In fact, I would not be surprised if they had come from the same artist (I know they haven't LOL). It just demonstrates how "abstraction" is really so close to "realism". I wish you great bundles of luck with the show and I just wish, wish, I could be there to see it.
Thanks Sheila! Yep, abstraction is so important, in fact critical to creating representational art. Students look at me funny when I first introduce this idea, but once they get it, their work takes off like a rocket! :)
Materese. Now you've got me BLOGGING! Per Sheila's comment, Georgio Morandi (1890-1964) says, "Nothing is more abstract than reality." He's one of my new favorites on a long, long list. Speaking of which your "Harbor View" going into the showhouse blows me away!
John, it's so good to hear from you - even if just in cyberspace! :) Hope that you are still painting and that you have a chance to come by the show. Looking forward to seeing you soon. All my best to you.
Materese. Saw the Artists Gallery show Friday and continue to find your work beautiful and amazing. There is light and lightness and warmth in all your work that I envy and am always grateful to receive from a painting.
(Re: my clumsy previous blog about "Harbor View:" I love the painting. Once again the light and touch -- though I've only seen it here. I was trying to distinguish it from other Maine paintings by referencing the showhouse, not suggest that "going to the showhouse" was what I ... yada, yada, yada.
I have done some canvasses over the winter that I would like to look at with your eye. Nobody knows better where I've come from and about my struggle to get somewhere with painting.
Meanwhile, if it ever stops raining, do you plan to lead some plein aire sessions soon?
Very best regards.
Hi John! Thanks so much for your kind words. And of course, bring your recent work to the studio, just give me a ring to set up a time, (Wednesdays and Thursdays are best).
I am going to have plein air classes - hopefully yes this rain will soon stop. I'll be sending out info on the class via e-mail in the next week or so - more than likely it will be on Thursdays.
great to hear from you again and sooo glad that you still have a brush in your hand!
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