Oct 30 - Dec 1, 2024
Opening Reception: Friday, November 1, 6-8 pm
Linda Klein: “Dreams and Hallucinations”
Winslow Myers: “Planes, Trains and Automobiles”
SMFA Students: “Source of Origin”
Linda Klein: “Dreams and Hallucinations”
In my work over the past twenty years, nature has been a challenging, variegated and continuous inspiration. I try to celebrate her creations, in their glory, power and fragility.
In my art making process, I immerse myself in nature and its fecundity of form. I wander outside often on a trail that is nearby. When I see a form or shape that grabs my attention, I take a snapshot to remember it. It might be the sky, a leaf, an intense contrast of light on leaves, trunks of trees, or unusual color schemes. I am struck by how the light will seek its counterpart, often in the flat silhouette of darkness.
My intention is to bring the viewers into my created world and encourage them to honor the world nature has brought us.
Winslow Myers: “Planes, Trains and Automobiles”
I paint from imagination, even though the final image always resembles the “real” world in a general way. For me a painting always begins from inside, an intuition of how simple motifs like trees or a repeated pattern of railroad ties might be distilled into something fresh that comes across as both abstract and representational.
A freight car is an efficient conveyor of goods, but also an interesting arrangement of shapes and colors, something with a potential for visual poetry. As Morandi said, “There is nothing more surreal and abstract than reality.” One wants to live the question: what is it that only painting can do, or that painting does best? In a sense all painting is still life—silent, but alive on its own terms.
SMFA Students: “Source of Origin”
For centuries, artists have used the natural world as a material and inspirational source of expression. However, the separation of artists from material source, a relationship that has evolved over recent centuries, has enabled the return to foraging to now be considered a conscious artist choice and a reclamation of power.
With this exhibition, we ask artists to explore how they can use the land to inform their artwork, and to consider the conceptual weight of using foraged mediums in the contemporary Anthropocene.