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Other Summer Group Shows
In the entry: Benjamin Britton watercolors and George Long mixed-media work
I've been with the Marcia Wood Gallery in Atlanta since 1999, through three changes of venue, numerous exhibitions, and an evolving roster. One of the consistent aspects of the gallery program is Wood's inventiveness.
One year she invited her gallery artists to each select an artist to include in her summer show, thereby creating a bounty of collegiality among established and emerging artists--and a great-looking exhibition. Another time she focused an exhibition on a then-emerging medium, encaustic. Yet another, she organized six of us to create a print portfolio in Connecticut and then showed the artist proofs. Still another time, she let me curate a show that remained up for the entire summer. I'm sure Wood's other artists have similar stories of her willingness to explore and expand opportunities for us.
This summer it's the Summer Studio Salon: An Evolving Exhibition of Works on Paper. Wood selected 13 artists, myself included, and hung the work salon style. Most of it is unframed, secured to the wall with magnets, which has allowed us to bring or send new work as we complete it. Wood was looking not only for new, but for work in which we stretched some personal boundaries. What follows in a visual walk-through of the show.
George Long, Dilated Sequence, 2014; mixed media, venetian plaster, oil graphite; installed in gallery entrance, shown above
(Iimage from the gallery website)
(Iimage from the gallery website)
Panning around the entrance with a view into the gallery proper: two gouache and watercolor works by Benjamin Britton; Joe Peragine on the far wall
An imperfect panorama to orient you to the main gallery
I'm not providing dimensions for any of the work, because you can see the scale in these photos
From left: Three Rich Gere cyanotypes; my Swipe 6; Joe Peragine Wrestling Portraits
Joanne Mattera, Swipe 6, 2014, oil on prepared paper
Joe Peragine, Oliver, 2014, watercolor on linen
From the Peragine installation we continue around the gallery: a selection of work by David Humphrey; two from my Swipe series
Above and below: Closer views of the long wall
Above: with Peragine and Humphrey
Below: Humphrey and Mattera
Above: with Peragine and Humphrey
Below: Humphrey and Mattera
David Humphrey
Joanne Mattera, Swipe 1, 2014, oil on prepared paper
This work is just to the left of the door as you're facing it from the gallery . . .
Continuing around to the right side of the door . . .
Nancy Baker, Rich Gere, Marcus Kenney, Benjamin Britton
Nancy Baker, two framed paper constructions, left, with Magic Carpet Ride, right
Nancy Baker, Magic Carpet Ride, paper construction with acylic paint and archivally printed sections, cut and joined (gotta say that I love this piece!)
Rich Gere, Benjamin Britton
Rich Gere, Work in Progress II (above) and III, 2014, cyanotype on rag paper
Benjamin Britton, above and below: gouache and watercolor paintings on paper; bottom image from the gallery website
You can see that we've made a 360 of the front gallery, so . . .
. . . with the Britton gouaches to our left, we look into the second gallery and see three paintings on paper by Alan Loehle
Alan Loehle, Somebody, 2013, acrylic on gessoed paper
I love You, 2013, acrylic on gessoed paper
Untitled, 2013, acrylic on gessoed paper
To orient you, we're going to make a clockwise tour of the gallery
Installation of Timothy McDowell prints
Timothy McDowell, Imagined Landscape #3, 2014, archival inkjet, ed 1/3
Closeups of two of the three prints that are arranged vertically
Closeups of two of the three prints that are arranged vertically
Moving around the gallery, we see three oil on paper paintings by Brian Novatny, two of which are shown below
Brian Novatny, Uncertain Passage, 2014, above; The Devil's Due, 2014, below; both oil on paper
Corner view as we continue clockwise: Novatny, left, and Katherine Taylor
Katherine Taylor installation of oil or gouache paintings on paper or intaglio prints, 2014
Closer view below
As we step back to view Taylor's work, we glimpse the front gallery before continuing to a vertical installation of acrylic on paper paintings by Amber Boardman
Amber Boardman, above and below
Continuing around, three George Long monoprints
George Long, Murmuration 3
Let's return to the front gallery . . .
. . . and head back to the entrance
My three Swipe paintings (#4, #3, #1); and three by Marcus Kenny
Marcus Kenney, Alled, above, and O the Sun; both mixed media
I've refrained from comment, because I don't want this to be mistaken for anything other than what it is--a first-person tour of an exhibition in which my own work is included--but now that you've seen the work, I think that I can offer this remark: It is always gratifying to see the range of expression by a geographically diverse group of artists with a two-decade age range working within a thematic or material slice of expression. (And the gallery parties, which take place on the back terrace, are the best ever!)
If you're in Atlanta, Summer Studio Salon is up through next Saturday, August 30. Otherwise, you can the gallery's installation images here and peruse the work of the exhibiting artists here.
If you're in Atlanta, Summer Studio Salon is up through next Saturday, August 30. Otherwise, you can the gallery's installation images here and peruse the work of the exhibiting artists here.
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