NEW WORK PAUL BOWEN . JOAN KAHN . CELIA REISMAN . FULVIO TESTA October 3 - November 18, 2012
opening reception: Saturday, October 6 5- 7pm
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BigTown Gallery is delighted to present new work by four gallery artists:
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 | Paul Bowen Portal |
Paul Bowen has lived and worked near the waterfront of Cape Cod, for 30 years. He has always been interested in material with a history--wood he has scavenged that was once part of ships, houses, salt works, barrels, cable drums, or crates. Creating his own inks from squid, Xerox toner and walnuts, Bowen's drawings and prints derive their imagery from the encounter of history with his environment.
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 | Celia Reisman Italian Garden
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Celia Reisman combines architectural elements within a rich, complex world of invented color and shapes to create works that testify as much to the primacy of location in landscape as they do to the intimacy of the native sensibility she brings to their expression. Edward Sozanski of the Philadelphia Inquirer says she "offers a lushly colored and geometrically harmonious balance between realism and abstraction." The gouaches and oils in this exhibition were painted in Umbria this year.
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 | Joan Kahn Clouds and Lake
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"Different cities and environments where I have lived have influenced me tremendously; ... The importance and psychological significance of color and texture derives from these memories of environment and landscape. ...Although my work is reductive in intent, pared to essential elements...I intend to evoke a contemplative state in my viewer, and at the same time create moments of surprise and moments when personal aesthetic values are questioned." -Joan Kahn
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 | Fulvio Testa Untitled 20
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"Testa discovers his motifs as he manipulates his materials, coaxing thinned out pigment to conjure up not recognizable images of real locations, but rather, abstract equivalents for his own deeply internalized experience of places, moments in time, or moods....The intimate scale of Testa's paintings adds to their effect. Small, modest, and delicate, they force us to come close to them and pay attention." -Karen Wilkin
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