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Email PageBright Ideas
January 5, 2006- March 11, 2006
Isabel Bigelow, Susan Cianciolo, Sara Eichner, Bo Joseph, Michael Krueger and Robert Schmid
Sears-Peyton Gallery
210 11th AveSears-Peyton Gallery is pleased to present Bright Ideas, a group exhibition of gallery artists opening January 5 and continuing through March 11. The exhibiting artists are Isabel Bigelow, Susan Cianciolo, Sara Eichner, Bo Joseph, Michael Krueger and Robert Schmid. Central to this exhibition is the artists' use of brilliant colors to electrify the arts' content.
Isabel Bigelow's rich, velvety oil paintings of glowing trees and sky are studies of light and shadow. The exhibited paintings explore the way these colors shift through the seasons. In Tree, the use of fluorescent green and powdery sky blue makes the bushy branches alive with the bountiful air of summertime. Red Tree represents trees in Autumn, as the amber leaves slowly drift to the ground revealing the tree's bare branches. A glowing orange sky adds to this rich, Fall essence of fiery sunsets as the days get shorter and shorter.
Susan Cianciolo is an established New York fashion designer whose clothing line, Run, is known for its purposely crude aesthetic, with artful garments made from vintage fabrics with embellishments like button-on appliqués, hand-painted patterns, radical embroidery and coarse stitching. Cianciolo credits color as the driving force of her creative endeavors. Her palette is rich in reds, blues, and greens, as exemplified in the exhibited work-on-paper, Run 6. Like her fashions, Cianciolo's works-on-paper employ diverse materials in a constructivist, do-it-yourself manner. The result is a colorful burst of the artist's creative oeuvre.
Sara Eichner's vibrant, glossy paintings recreate patterns that are omnipresent in the modern world - tile flooring, brick walls, shingled roofs, and floral wallpaper. Eichner removes her paintings from this industrial reality by electrifying the colors. Bland brick-red and stone-grey are dismissed in favor of sour apple green, melon orange, and punchy pinks. In each painting, Eichner tints the grout with the complimentary color of the core hue in order to amplify optical illusion and create an atmospheric buzz.
Bo Joseph's mark-making is influenced by tribal art and rugs. Joseph creates stencils from books, illustrations, photographs and other unfinished works relating to these cultures, which he then transposes onto the canvas, creating boundaries for his painterly marks. While Joseph meticulously controls the forms within his work, he allows the alchemy of his media to play a role in the creation of the colors. In the exhibited piece, gaseous blue-green pools of color brew within the snowy stencils. A tension exists between the strictly stenciled forms and the explosive chemical reactions which occur in the painted ground, creating fluid drama and energy.
Michael Krueger uses historical narrative in his art as a means to relate to contemporary life. In his drawings, Krueger explores themes of hope, loss and magic. Hermit's Delight is inspired by Hugh Cameron, a man who lived in Krueger's hometown of Lawrence, Kansas in the 1800's. Cameron was a Civil War survivor who lived in a hollow tree on the outskirts of town, a colorful local figure who was always dressed in full military garb. In this drawing, Krueger imagines how this hermit saw the world as he stepped out of his timber abode - a magical, fairytale forest rich with colorful blooms. Krueger says about his work: “I like to use color to contrast the sometimes-heavier mood of the narrative and draw in a style (one that comes very naturally to me) that gives the images a very personal poetry and humor.”
Robert Schmid's photo-realistic paintings are based on snapshots that he takes with a point-and-shoot camera while he goes about his life in New York City. Schmid compiles a casual visual diary in this way, capturing our urban landscape of buildings, people and cars. In Extra Classic, color marks the human touch on the urban landscape. The drab materials of the city - grey concrete sidewalks, slate stone buildings, and brick tenements - are lifted by the human touches of color like the bright graffiti on the side of the industrial van.
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