Bruno David Gallery: Friday 9 February 2007
Opening Reception: Friday, February 9 from 6 to 9 pm (Exhibition: Feb 9 – March 10, 2007)
KELLEY JOHNSON: Dreaming
CHARLES SCHWALL: Project Room
LISA K. BLATT: New Media Room
In his recent work, Kelley Johnson experiments and explores the possibilities within the confines of oil paint. He creates paintings that can be read as figurative or abstract. Some of the paintings look like images from fantasy books and comics others look like children’s books while others resemble figures from popular myths. Mr. Johnson studied art at Indiana University (MFA), Parsons School of Design (BFA) and Yale School of Art.
In the Project Room, Charles Schwall’s paintings are informed by curvilinear and organic formations found in nature that are often associated with life, growth, and regenerative energy. In each work, interdependent shapes and lines overlap to form one entity, which evokes an interior place of gestation or incubation and also establishes a dialectic between containment and lack of containment. The paintings are created through additive and reductive processes of layering paint, as well as the refined use of gesture, contour, silhouette and color. The resulting images possess subtle relationships between shape, line, hand-rendered edges and a surface that reveals a sense of touch. As an artist educator, Mr. Schwall has co-edited and co-authored the book, In the Spirit of the Studio: Learning from the Atelier of Reggio Emilia.
San Francisco based photographer and video artist Lisa K. Blatt will present in the New Media Room a video titled 24 hours in Venice in 24 seconds. This video examines time and perception and the intersection of nature and culture. Her work straddles the representational and phenomenological – How one may see the landscape as well as how landscape may represent both being and non being, presence and absence, infinity and finality. Ms. Blatt received her MFA (New Genres) from the San Francisco Art Institute.
Bruno David Gallery, 3721 Washington Boulevard (in Grand Center) St. Louis, Missouri 63108
KELLEY JOHNSON: Dreaming
CHARLES SCHWALL: Project Room
LISA K. BLATT: New Media Room
In his recent work, Kelley Johnson experiments and explores the possibilities within the confines of oil paint. He creates paintings that can be read as figurative or abstract. Some of the paintings look like images from fantasy books and comics others look like children’s books while others resemble figures from popular myths. Mr. Johnson studied art at Indiana University (MFA), Parsons School of Design (BFA) and Yale School of Art.
In the Project Room, Charles Schwall’s paintings are informed by curvilinear and organic formations found in nature that are often associated with life, growth, and regenerative energy. In each work, interdependent shapes and lines overlap to form one entity, which evokes an interior place of gestation or incubation and also establishes a dialectic between containment and lack of containment. The paintings are created through additive and reductive processes of layering paint, as well as the refined use of gesture, contour, silhouette and color. The resulting images possess subtle relationships between shape, line, hand-rendered edges and a surface that reveals a sense of touch. As an artist educator, Mr. Schwall has co-edited and co-authored the book, In the Spirit of the Studio: Learning from the Atelier of Reggio Emilia.
San Francisco based photographer and video artist Lisa K. Blatt will present in the New Media Room a video titled 24 hours in Venice in 24 seconds. This video examines time and perception and the intersection of nature and culture. Her work straddles the representational and phenomenological – How one may see the landscape as well as how landscape may represent both being and non being, presence and absence, infinity and finality. Ms. Blatt received her MFA (New Genres) from the San Francisco Art Institute.
Bruno David Gallery, 3721 Washington Boulevard (in Grand Center) St. Louis, Missouri 63108
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