Featuring the paintings of Carol Bennet, Jylian Gustlin, and Sherri Belassen, this exhibition will feature brightly colored figurative painting.
Carol Bennett paints the world below the surface. Through the extensive use of multiple layers of paint and varnish, she illuminates a view of the swimmer below the picture plane and out of sight. Her paintings capture the fluid, weightless feeling we all experience when we are swimming. As onlookers and not the subject, we can relish in the swirls and eddies created by the body moving through the water and admire the light as it dances across the form and catches the reflections.
Figures strike a pose in the mixed media paintings of Jylian Gustlin. A blend of paint, metal leaf, crayon, and other mediums, lies just below a surface of crystal clear epoxy resin. The apparent looseness and randomness of her paintings belie her fascination with mathematics. Using the Fibonacci sequence: 1,2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, and so on, she envisions a world of figures built out of rectangles and shell spirals. Bright reds, yellows, blues, and oranges are used to create her forms.
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Sherri Bellasen’s painting may have a slightly aboriginal feel, but the paintings are all California. Mosaics of bright color and pattern collide against a backdrop of simple geometry. Surfers stand at the end of the canvas pointing out to the sea. Figures lounge in a hammock, their abstracted forms slicing the canvas in two. Flowers flatten against the picture plane, their petals collaged into being.
Please join us Thursday, August 11th from 6-8 pm. Music will be provided by the Jon Zeeman Trio.