May
4 to May 27, 2007
Opening reception Friday, May 4th, 5:30 - 8:00 PM
Camilla
Roberts
Scott Nelson
Amy Boemig
Ralph DeAnna
Corinna Jablonski - guest artist
BEYOND
REALISM REDUX: RESCHEDULED EXHIBIT
EXPLORES MYTHIC, FANTASTIC
AND SURREAL
The
Windham Art Gallery is pleased to present Beyond Realism, an
exhibit, which originally scheduled for February, was moved
to May due to a renovation of the gallery. Beyond Realism
is an exhibition of paintings and sculpture by four of WAG's
member-artists, Amy Boemig, Ralph DeAnna, Camilla Roberts,
and Scott Nelson as well as guest artist, Corinna Jablonski.
This new work represent the artists' interest in exploring
boundaries that exist beyond known experience and familiar
aspects of the real world. The exhibition will be on display
from Friday, May 4 through Sunday, May 27, with an opening
reception on Friday, May 4, from 5-8 PM, during Gallery Walk.
Amy Boemig, known for her detailed and realistic sculptures
and animal paintings, will be exhibiting creatures inspired
from myth and her imagination, such as a bronze sculpture of
a Cerberus-like three-headed dog, called Cerbie Socialized,
and a painting of a small winged sheep flying around the great
head of a lion. In this new work, Boemig wants to "suggest
characters and stories that while fantastic are still somehow
familiar and believable." Guest artist, Corinna Jablonski,
will exhibit a painting, which reveals a "Victorian folly
in a fantastic landscape," as well as several marionettes
made from cast glass and found materials. Janice-Janice is
a full figure marionette that resembles the Roman god of gates
and doorways, Janus, and is depicted with two faces looking
in opposite directions. "I am fascinated by the histories,
behaviors and anatomy of wildlife," Jablonski explains. "My
memories and dream observations developed into a . . .consequent
rearrangement. . . often rooted in the line, movement and gesture
of dance. "
The oil paintings of Ralph DeAnna, who has been working with
themes of time and motion through images of people--often seen
inside cars at night--combine realistic and abstract imagery
and achieve an otherwordly "in motion" effect. His
latest work includes a complex layering of mulitple images
and angles that make the viewer question their own notions
of time, space and perception. The ghostly outline of figures
in Camilla Roberts' oil paintings merge with the natural patterns
of the landscape; this mirroring of within and without reflect
how the human presence effects, transforms and is integral
to the land from one moment to the next. Scott Nelson's drawings
are of realistically rendered human faces that inhabit imaginary
or surrealistic landscapes; his sculptures, made from mundane
materials like toilet paper and paper towels, transform everyday
subject matter into something unexpected and out-of-the-ordinary.
