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Email PageParallel Worlds
July 12, 2007- July 28, 2007
Reception: July 12, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Chuck Avery, Terry Brewin, Giovanni Caravaggio, Gina Michaels
PaulaBarr chelsea
508 W 26th StPaulaBarr chelsea will present "Parallel Worlds”, a group show featuring the work of four innovative artists: Chuck Avery, Terry Brewin, Giovanni Caravaggio and Gina Michaels. The artists will be present at the opening on Thursday, July 12, from 6 pm to 8 pm.
Georgia O'Keeffe said, “I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way--things I had no words for.”
Parallel Worlds takes us on an exciting journey through different worlds; through powerful photographs depicting the changes in our urban landscapes, paintings that carry us outside of our intense world, wall bronze sculptures celebrating the variations in shapes of the human body, and colorful whimsical standing sculptures taking us into the fascinating animal world. With this show, PaulaBarr chelsea demonstrates the truth of O’Keeffe’s vision: color and shapes can say things than words cannot express. Chuck Avery holds a B.F.A. in Photography from the Kansas City Art Institute and an I.A. in Architecture from the Iowa State University. His work has been exhibited in numerous galleries across the country as well as abroad, notably in China. He is presenting photos from a series entitled “Landscape in progress,” which documents the uneasy transition of a large undeveloped suburban area in the Twin Cities into a planned community of megastores, strip malls, high-density housing and hotels. The physical transformation of the land is symbolic of the underlying social and economic forces that drive the process of urban sprawl. Chuck’s photos inspire awareness of the process and help to pose questions that a development of this magnitude raises. Terry Brewin is a versatile and pioneering artist. She began her artistic pursuits at Cooper Union in the early seventies, where she was recognized for her unique and innovative design concepts. After Cooper Union, Terry undertook advanced study and apprenticeship in furniture design and fine woodworking. For the past several years, she has applied her talents to the restoration and modernization of old houses and commercial buildings. She returned to school to hone her skills in the fine arts, and has conceived and created a collection of whimsical, illuminated animal sculptures for the young and youthful. Each individually crafted artwork is a unique, one-of-a-kind design creating a captivating 3-dimensional form.
Giovanni Caravaggio studied at La Escuela de Artes Plasticas in Old San Juan in Puerto Rico. He then moved to New York City, where he studied at the School of Visual Arts and at the Art Students League. He developed his own style influenced mostly by surrealism and the concepts of the contemporary artist from the early 19th Century into the present contemporary world of art. Today, Giovanni focuses more on the Neo-Abstract/ Expressionism style of painting combined with a contemporary approach to painting on layers, revealing at times the under-painting to create a depth and the illusion of images and textures. The work being open to interpretation appeals to those willing to appreciate the fine arts and the creative expression in these paintings. Giovanni’s art allows others to travel into his world, a new space in which one can open the mind and experience something authentic and unique.
Gina Michaels holds an M.F.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. from Oberlin College. Her work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions in museums, galleries, and cultural centers. In New York, her sculpture has been exhibited at Ceres Gallery, Prince Street Gallery and at Sally Hawkins Gallery. Gina starts her sculptures in a sandbox by pressing her hands, arms, legs and feet into casting sand, imprinting the expressive energy of the body directly into the mold. She also draws in the sand. She then ladles molten bronze directly into the hollows created by the body. The immediacy of the flowing metal and the happy accidents that occur in the process are an integral part of the work, making each piece unique. The quality of spontaneity continues as elements are juxtaposed in free-association collages and welded together. By combining the ancient tradition of cast bronze with the modern tradition of fabricated metal sculpture, she gives her work a sense of lightness. The wall pieces seem to float. All this is in marked contrast with the weighty tradition (both literal and metaphorical) of bronze sculpture.
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