Exhibitions
Slant Dazzle
Grimshaw-Gudewicz Art Gallery, Bristol Community College
October 31 to December 13, 2024
Geormetric Gestures
dodomu gallery
February 1 – March 21, 2024
Geometric Gestures explores geometry and its vocabulary highlighting the interplay of linework, shape, form and pattern; whether that’s a curved line of a solid form or sharp angle of bravura brushwork. The exhibition showcases explorations of contrast that emphasize structure, balance of symmetry and abstraction between shape and form.
Ad Astra
Gallery 44
November 23, 2023 – February 3, 2024
Glance Gander Gaze
Pell Lucy: Winter 2023 Exhibition
Organized and Curated by Deborah Barlow | Hosted by SHIM Art Network
December 22 – June 21, 2024
“Glancing, gandering, and gazing are visual perception skills. Used with intentionality, they expand and enrich the way we look and see. These skills also have great value to artists and to art making, enhancing that ongoing effort to bring something new into existence with a more “full spectrum” approach. For Pell Lucy artists who share a belief in the profound eloquence of images, this is yet another way to encounter the innate intelligence of form.”
- Deborah Barlow, Excerpt of Exhibition Statement
Luminous Elsewheres
Curated by Deborah Barlow, Karen Fitzgerald and
Alison Cuomo
Westbeth Gallery, New York
March 31 – April 28, 2023
Westbeth Gallery will host Luminous Elsewheres, an exhibit featuring artists who actively explore visual domains that are evocative, mysterious and unexpected. Eschewing the confines of logic and linearity, Luminous Elsewheres artists are receptors through whom “the echoes and reflections of an irrational elsewhere flow freely and take form.” (Daniela Ferretti) The exhibit will be on view from March 31 through April 28, 2023.
“Each artist in Luminous Elsewheres has honed a vision of a personal ‘elsewhere’ that embodies its own radiant dimensionality,” the curators have written. “These visual explorations open up new ways of seeing, feeling and perceiving.” Sourced primarily through intuition and the process of art making itself, the works included in this show bring viewers closer to what Susan Sontag described as “the luminousness of the thing in itself.”
(Excerpt of Exhibition Statement)
More Seeingly
Pell Lucy: Winter 2022 Exhibition
Organized and Curated by Deborah Barlow | Hosted by SHIM Art Network
December 22 – February 23, 2023
“In considering the paintings of Cezanne, Rainer Maria Rilke addressed the importance of standing “more seeingly” in front of a work of art. As a poet with a strong interest in the visual arts, Rilke’s admonition is worth deeper consideration.
His words ask for more than just giving a work of art our intensely focused attention. That phrase has come to mean something even more substantial. Rilke is recommending that we step out of the safe domain of the reasonable and rational and into the uncertain and uncanny landscape of visual language. Doing so means letting go of what you think you know and what you think you are seeing. It is a willingness to go somewhere you haven’t been. To wander. And, at times, to even feel lost.”
- Deborah Barlow, Excerpt of Exhibition Statement