This year’s Alfa Gallery anniversary exhibition
present three artists who all create abstractions, but with different approaches to technique and imagery: Chinyee, Bertha (Bert) Thompson and Tony DiBella. Since its emergence as a viable and accepted form of modernist art near the beginning of the 20th century, abstraction has continued to act as a method of image-making that seems essentially boundless in its diversity and potential
to inspire imagination and technical experimentation. Within the work of the three artists in this exhibition, one can appreciate the flexibility of abstraction to accommodate differing and highly personal sensibilities and interests, yielding particular exemplars of the range of abstract imagery, whether painterly or geometric, gestural or linear, opaque or filled with light. These artists also demonstrate how, behind the immediate impression of abstraction, sources drawn from the real world may be at work, whether literal or symbolic.
