Duane Reed Gallery: Friday, 21 May 2010
May 21, 2010 through June 18, 2010
Jenny Pohlman & Sabrina Knowles
and
Jill Hackney
Opening Reception to meet the artists Friday, May 21st, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Gallery Hours Tuesday - Saturday 10 - 5
Duane Reed Gallery presents the latest work of sculptors Jenny Pohlman & Sabrina Knowles. Pohlman and Knowles began their collaboration in 1992. They use a variety of materials in their rich assemblages, including hot-sculpted glass, various metal works, found objects and beads. Three notable research field trips had a profound impact on their personal and artistic development: in 1997, they visited Zimbabwe and Botswana; returning to Africa they visited Ghana in 2000, in 2002 they traveled to Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and East Africa to get a wider experience of the entire continent. They gathered creative and emotional inspiration from these travels. These experiences are used to create sculptures that embody mythological stories in glass. Part of the narrative of the object is derived from the artists' own travels and partly by ancient cultures and magic of African life as witnessed by the two artists.
Duane Reed Gallery presents the latest work of painter Jill Hackney. Jill paints light in limpid pools of reflection. Closely observing the color of light, both directly cast and reflected, she harmonizes positive and negative space through her painting technique. Connecting the object with its surrounding environment, her gossamer web of brush strokes are identifiable as a series of vertical linear marks. Similar in optical effect to the pointillist technique of Georges Seurat, each stroke builds up a carefully controlled blend of glittering complimentary and analogous hues. These pigments ultimately blend in the eye to create recognizable forms. The effect is often hallucinatory, reminiscent of Peter Doig's "Blotter" and Monet's "Water Lilies." Hackney concentrates on the forms the light take glancing off the surface of ponds and streams observing their fleeting existence, she paints optical events that will never repeat themselves.
Jenny Pohlman & Sabrina Knowles
and
Jill Hackney
Opening Reception to meet the artists Friday, May 21st, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Gallery Hours Tuesday - Saturday 10 - 5
Duane Reed Gallery presents the latest work of sculptors Jenny Pohlman & Sabrina Knowles. Pohlman and Knowles began their collaboration in 1992. They use a variety of materials in their rich assemblages, including hot-sculpted glass, various metal works, found objects and beads. Three notable research field trips had a profound impact on their personal and artistic development: in 1997, they visited Zimbabwe and Botswana; returning to Africa they visited Ghana in 2000, in 2002 they traveled to Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and East Africa to get a wider experience of the entire continent. They gathered creative and emotional inspiration from these travels. These experiences are used to create sculptures that embody mythological stories in glass. Part of the narrative of the object is derived from the artists' own travels and partly by ancient cultures and magic of African life as witnessed by the two artists.
Duane Reed Gallery presents the latest work of painter Jill Hackney. Jill paints light in limpid pools of reflection. Closely observing the color of light, both directly cast and reflected, she harmonizes positive and negative space through her painting technique. Connecting the object with its surrounding environment, her gossamer web of brush strokes are identifiable as a series of vertical linear marks. Similar in optical effect to the pointillist technique of Georges Seurat, each stroke builds up a carefully controlled blend of glittering complimentary and analogous hues. These pigments ultimately blend in the eye to create recognizable forms. The effect is often hallucinatory, reminiscent of Peter Doig's "Blotter" and Monet's "Water Lilies." Hackney concentrates on the forms the light take glancing off the surface of ponds and streams observing their fleeting existence, she paints optical events that will never repeat themselves.
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