Annual Summer Group Exhibition
Opening Reception Saturday, June 22 3:00-6:00p.m
June 22 - August 5, 2024
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Galleri Urbane is pleased to announce our 10th Annual Summer Exhibition, in Gallery 1 ‘nature is what we see’, a group show featuring work by gallery artists, Drea Cofield and Heath West, and introducing; Makenzie Heinemann, Lina Tharsing, and Bradley Biancardi. The exhibition is composed of artists examining landscape through their individual interpretations; from plein-air compositions to explorations in the abstractions available in landscape - both realistic and geometric.
Artist Drea Cofield returns with her plein-air compositions, derived from the desire inherent in the natural movement of the world. Heath West explores the phenomena in the Mojave Desert between sunrise and stargaze, combining stacks of color colliding against each other in vertical stacks. Introducing Dallas artist Makenzie Heinemann, the artist utilizes a pouring technique for her paintings, each done on the floor of her studio, “I blur land/body divisions and investigate the territory where magic and nature mingle," she says. Water cascades to her canvases, spreading the saturated pigments through a process of wetting, drying, and repetition. Lina Tharsing also joins the exhibition with a series of "window paintings," each done through a plein-air practice. The refracted soft focused colors of the exteriors blur shape and form in a swirling mix of hue, texture, and tonality. Bradley Biancardi explores the varrying values of hue as the sun transitions through its path in the sky. His scenes are split from sea and sky, with atmospheric light shimmering between layers of rising waves.
Continuing the Summer Group Exhibition in the Viewing Room includes new work from Anna Kunz, Benjamin Terry, Paho Mann, Gail Peter Borden, Rachel Hellmann, Mel Prest, and Arden Bendler Browning. The themes expressed within ‘nature is what we see’ is continued here, with a greater sense of abstraction. Arden Bendler Browning reveals two new works of recent material exploration, combining cardboard abstractions and acrylic paintings based in landscape scenes. Her process begins by drawings sketched on hikes and in cartrips; once in her studio, Browning realizes the movements inherent in the environments she sketched, creating collages and paintings of kaleidoscopic vibrancy. Rachel Hellmann presents two sculptural paintings; each consists of two panels stacked atop one another, intentionally casting light and shadow across the colored surfaces she paints. From her series of works on paper “Time is Knots on a String,” Mel Prest presentes 3 new works from the series, expanding on the engagement between line and color. The works are respond to the delineation of time, related to when the passing of time was recorded through knots along strings.
Ongoing in Gallery 1 is Saskia Fleishman’s solo exhibition, Scattered Light. Fleishman's exhibition is strongly related to the work presented in 'nature is what we see', as her work presents the intersection of on-location imagery, and post-photographic abstraction through material intervention
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