Image by UVa 4th Year Vincent Mendiola at The Bridge PAI
It’s the first of the month again and time for more galleryhopping. It’s supposed to be nice and warm with clear skies, so you have no excuse not to go check out some C-ville art. Hopefully I will run into some of you readers. Be sure to keep an eye out for MUSE staffers handing out business cards and say hi.
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During the months of May and June, Migration: A Gallery will feature the paintings of renowned Connecticut artist Suzanne Howes-Stevens. Join us this First Friday for a reception with the artist. “Earth Openings” is Suzanne’s second show at Migration and will run through June 27, 2008. To honor the artist’s commitment to protecting the beauty and health of our endangered waterways, Migration will donate a percentage of the sales made during the exhibit’s May 2 opening night celebration to the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.
Suzanne Howes-Stevens’ work combines beauty with a mission. Working oil paints so that the opaque medium takes on the spontaneous and delicate quality of watercolor, Suzanne captures scenes of the world at its edges, where the water meets land - primarily images inspired by her lifetime spent living along the New England coast. She uses maps as a background and a border to ground her work with a sense of place and meaning.
Suzanne regularly searches for inspiration while paddling in her kayak or canoeing through various New England waterways, taking her camera along to record these hidden life-giving places. Then in her studio, Suzanne refers to the snapshots and creates her pristine worlds. Suzanne’s use of maps as her “canvas” allows her to emphasize the borders that exist between water and land. Those spaces that we love so much are disappearing; this is often reflected in the water scenes drifting into the map area. Hers is a potent imagery with a poignant feeling and innate beautify that will not leave you unchanged.
For images, go here:
http://www.migrationgallery.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=56
Well done Pinkie. A most excellent post.
I’d love to join you on your crawl, but I have to go to BeCamp 2008 (http://barcamp.org/beCamp2008) to hang out with a bunch of people who are way smarter than me.
Good lord. Pinkie, from my experiences at adding links to a post, this is most, most impressive!!! Fantastic work!
Did you see anything good last night, Pinkie?
artPark, I had every intention of heading to Migration yesterday afternoon for the reception but my girlfriend and I ended up enjoying a few beers on the Mall in the sun before heading to see Eli Cook at Fridays after Five and by then the evening was upon us. I promise we’ll stop in soon and check out Suzanne’s work and say Howdy.
Shaun - It was a beautiful night for beers and music on the Mall. We look forward to seeing at the gallery.
migration was cool. i’ve often contemplated meshing art with maps and calendars…
good stuff. 2nd street blew it all out of the water(street).
art and machines- dude, the artist put air compressors and paint guns(ala airspray painting) in “the scrambler” a carnival ride…and made giant spirographs.
and more- i got all excited about art again.
I ran into her Bob Ross performance….so clever!
Pinkie doesn’t have internet access at her new place yet. FF review coming up shortly!