Exhibition: SPRING QUINTET

Painting and sculpture curated by Arlene Bujese.
Deborah Black, Pamela Focarino, Margery Gosnell-Qua, Jane Johnson, - sculpture: Ronnie Chalif

Reception: Saturday, March 31, 2012 from 5 - 7 PM

Gallery Hours:Monday - Saturday 12 - 4 PM or by appointment

The focus of the exhibition is the representation of nature through personal perspectives of five regional artists. It is "essential" nature which dominates the works, moving through representation and abstraction, with emphasis on light, mood, and gesture.

Deborah Black of East Hampton will show a new series of acrylic on paper works wherein abstracted tree, rock, and grass forms are infused with filtered light. Textural, expressionist strokes complete the dynamic of movement in nature.

PAMELA FOCARINO of East Hampton has created a new series of oil on canvas paintings featuring the play of light in the relationship between sky and water. Light shines through the layered surface to create a luminous, translucent effect.

MARGERY GOSNELL-QUA of Remsenburg is showing a selection of oil on canvas and watercolor paintings Cupsogue and Sojourn series. Bold, gestural strokes suggesting fleeting forms and changes in light. Structural elements, such as houses in the distance are reduced abstracted shapes.

JANE JOHNSON , Sag Harbor, reduces the elements of nature to the most subtle forms. Colorful, large, rounded, biomorphic forms only suggest trees and foliage which play on a surface of light sugges ing movement in nature.

RONNIE CHALIF, until recently a long time resident of the East End, now lives in NYC. Her abstract sculpture is presented as stone landscape inspired by the power and beauty of rocks from many mountain regions. Works in African Wonderstone and Carrara marble are a combination of carving and exposure of the existing natural surfaces.