Wednesday's preview and Thursday's opening of Sondra Arkin's new solo exhibition at the Nevin Kelly Gallery were well attended with admiring guests. The show, Color: Field Tests, which is part of the ColorField remix events throughout the Washington, DC area over the next several months, includes encaustic and box construction works in the Color Field tradition. Many of the works are set against background wall colors that the artist personally selected (and installed, with the help of fellow artists Mary Beth Ramsey, Joan Belmar, and yours truly) to show the impact of art on its environment and of the environment on each work of art. Visitors have been mesmerized by the exquisite texture and translucency of Arkin's encaustic pieces and by her imaginitive constructions using wooden boxes, copper leaf, copper wire, hemp string and encaustic-dipped tabs of paper (a nod to her contributions to the Poetic License show at the gallery with Ramsey last summer). See local artist and blogger Anne Marchand's review (thanks, Anne). For lovers of encaustic, Color Field work and/or Arkin (or, like me, of all of the above), this show is a must-see. Plan to come for the artist's talk on May 6 from 2-4.
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Sondra N. Arkin Opens to Rave Reviews
Wednesday's preview and Thursday's opening of Sondra Arkin's new solo exhibition at the Nevin Kelly Gallery were well attended with admiring guests. The show, Color: Field Tests, which is part of the ColorField remix events throughout the Washington, DC area over the next several months, includes encaustic and box construction works in the Color Field tradition. Many of the works are set against background wall colors that the artist personally selected (and installed, with the help of fellow artists Mary Beth Ramsey, Joan Belmar, and yours truly) to show the impact of art on its environment and of the environment on each work of art. Visitors have been mesmerized by the exquisite texture and translucency of Arkin's encaustic pieces and by her imaginitive constructions using wooden boxes, copper leaf, copper wire, hemp string and encaustic-dipped tabs of paper (a nod to her contributions to the Poetic License show at the gallery with Ramsey last summer). See local artist and blogger Anne Marchand's review (thanks, Anne). For lovers of encaustic, Color Field work and/or Arkin (or, like me, of all of the above), this show is a must-see. Plan to come for the artist's talk on May 6 from 2-4.
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Sondra N. Arkin / Color: Field Tests Opening Reception TONIGHT 6-9 PM
Please join us tonight, Thursday, 6-9 pm for the opening reception for Sondra N. Arkin's solo exhibition Color: Field Tests. Here are some shots of the installation.
Sondra Arkin, Mary Beth Ramsey and May/June gallery exhibitor Joan Belmar working on the color installation Monday
Joan and Mary Beth hard at work
Unified Field Theory: Orange on Blue
Unified Field Theory: Blue on Orange and me putting out chocolates at the preview last night.
Saturday, April 14, 2007
Friday, April 06, 2007
I'm back!
I was away all last week at the International Panorama Council annual conference. Very scholarly. Anyways, while I was away the lovely Katie Tuss of Lenny Campello's Mid Atlantic Art News reviewed Women's Work, which is up in the gallery through Sunday. Read the review here. And come see the work before it's gone!Pictured above: Abbe McGray, Panwah?, oil on canvas, 24" x 48"
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