Current - December 21, 2011 to January 28, 2012
A three-person show combining new works by gallery artists Joanne Kerrihard, Jean Stern and David Mazza:
In her newly evolved major paintings Joanne Kerrihard has come to pure abstract motif. These mid-career works are fully resolved expressions in color and movement – a long cry from her formal, tightly construed, literal imagery of her one-woman show at the Tucson Museum of Art, 2000-2001. References to landscape and seascape abound, colored in a palette of secondary hues accented in primary blues, yellows and reds. She studied under the late Bruce McGrew (1937-1999).
Jean Stern is a long-time member of the Tucson contemporary art scene and a founding member of Rancho Linda Vista Art Colony in Oracle, north of Tucson. Her small narrative paintings blend the joyous colors of Henri Matisse (1869-1954) and the brilliant compositions of Milton Avery (1885-1965). Her imagery is essentially built of color blocks to create a compressed, 2-dimensional space. Subject matter are stories from the Bible and family traditions. They are ironic, poignant, mysterious and occasionally humorous but always poetic in their elegant sophistication.
Our youngest artist (and new father), David Mazza, welds, polishes and applies industrial finishes to steel and brass to create large outdoor worthy sculpture (and smaller sizes for indoor) in a Modern manner – abstract lines of rectangles, squares, tubes and triangles. His earlier, lighter style suggesting the movement of dance has given way to a heavier, monumental look (can we say, brutal ?) that harkens to the heyday of 1950's American Post-Modernism. Even though the elements are weighty, they are joined in an upwards direction that gives the sense of lightness and motion, a transitional effect.
Main Gallery walls are filled with large canvases by Joanne Kerrihard, the floors hold David Mazza's major and minor pieces and the small paintings by Jean Stern are in the separate Alcove of the Main Gallery.
Click here to see a slideshow of this exhibit.
LOCATION: 154 E 6th Street, Tucson 85705
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Saturday 11am to 4pm
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CONTACT: Mike Dominguez
PHONE: (520) 629-9759
Panorama of Main Gallery
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