Contemporary artists the gallery has the honor to represent. From museum collected to emerging artist, Gurari Collections strives to exhibit artists whose technical mastery is evident and artistic expression is consummate.
SCOTT TULAY - DIMENSIONAL/TRANSPARENCIES
May 7 - 30, 2010
Gurari Collections is pleased to present an exhibition of work-on-paper by the artist Scott Tulay. Entitled DIMENSIONAL/TRANSPARENCIES, the exhibition investigates the ambiguity of space. Whether inspired by built form or natural context his art is constructed by an armature of light. Light is engaged in defining space, which also possesses a transmission quality – movement of light in space. Scott Tulay is especially attuned to exploring this relationship. With training and practice in fine art and architecture he tries to push his work, rendering up imagined graphic geometries of the manmade, yet, applying the deftness of a painter’s sensibility. Employing perspective skillfully, Tulay engages us by layering the dimensional space ambiguously. Prismatic and hurried light beckons us to read the work cinematically. Conversely, a haunting almost ghosting sensation pervades other work where one can hear a silence of space.
VICO FABBRIS
April 2 - May 2, 2010
Gurari Collections is pleased to present an exhibition of watercolor paintings and work-on-paper by the artist Vico Fabbris. Entitled FLORALIES, the exhibition continues the artist’s exploration of fantasy botanicals. In an era where environmental concerns are paramount, Vico Fabbris is especially attuned to the loss of nature and it’s delicate species – flowers. He attempts to replace the lost habitat with botanical “flights of fantasy”. In so doing, he delights the eye by creating the “almost real” as well as the satirical and absurd. Whether engaged by an imagined context, by a supporting story, or alone in mid-air suspension, his artwork is exuberant and a celebration of the inventive mind.
FLORALIES presents us new species of plant life with an artist created latin genus for each. Inferences of historical antecedents are implied in the watercolors and work-on-paper reminding us that discoveries of exotic flora and fauna were delighting nobility and informing scientific inquiry during the centuries of continental exploration. As if drawing his sources from the medieval through the baroque to the present, Vico Fabbris creates his botanical world with attention to detail and the flourish of the brush. His work exemplifies the loss of our natural habitat by engaging us with the pleasure of his fancy.
WENDY ARTIN
COLUMNAE - watercolor paintings
November 24 - December 20, 2009
COLUMNAE, Artin’s upcoming show of watercolors at Gurari Collections, features 60 paintings of architectural columns and landscapes from Rome’s ancient history, a selection of sanguine nudes both male and female, statuary, as well as still life watercolor paintings - birds, lemons and more.
Regarding the title of this exhibition, COLUMNAE, according to Marcus Vitruvius Pollo, (80 –15 BC.), in De Architectura,
“All these should possess strength, utility, and beauty. Strength arises from carrying down the foundations to a good solid bottom, and from making a proper choice of materials without parsimony. Utility arises from a judicious distribution of the parts, so that their purposes be duly answered, and that each have its proper situation. Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other”.
If strength and utility are absolutes in the built form, then beauty is the result of these conditions creating, defining and participating in context. Wendy Artin has been living, breathing in, and painting in Rome and the Campagna over the last fifteen years. In so doing, she has experienced her art in the pulsations of light, shade, and shadow that this city, and this country of civilization, renders. Living daily with the sites, the sounds and all the senses at play, she paints a history in the present that transcends time.
As Wendy Artin observes in the following thoughts –
“ Hot stones, sounds of crickets, great stillness, sun revealing forms and shadows like puddles of clear watercolor. A gust of wind brings gentle wafts of sun-baked plants, the same wind that for centuries has gradually worn away and rounded off the architectural shapes that seem eternal, in their great immobility. This is what stimulated me, the current magic world of architecture created in an ancient past.” Wendy Artin, 2009
Whether inert as in architecture, or in the movement of the live figure, Wendy Artin deftly captures the essence of its being through mastery of the painter’s hand and the timelessness that her innate ability conveys.
Wendy Artin's Website
T. KELLY WILSON
INQUIRIES - Recent Work - Oil Painting, Graphite Drawing. After many years of plein air painting INQUIRIES has brought the artist into the studio to study, to deconstruct, to obtain space, light, and color from an honored begonia plant. As the exhibition will demonstrate, Kelly Wilson is facile in the analytic and expressive in the nature of painting. Wilson's work resonates with the color coding of space and the making of dimensional planer surfaces that are warped by the life and age of this plant. Since his inquiry covered a lengthy time span, the investigation measures the begonia's own changes and morphology. The subsequent paintings and drawings reveal, and pleasure the senses.
MOLLIE GOLDSTROM
In her chosen mediums of intaglio and drawings, Mollie Goldstrom attempts to portray the “ambiguous space between opposing states of existence”. Referenced sources are popular folklore, personal myth, current events and environmental issues. Her work conveys a sense of whimsy while contending with allegorical, socio-political, and metaphysical challenges.
Collections in this category:
WENDY ARTIN |
SCOTT TULAY |
MOLLIE GOLDSTROM |
VICO FABBRIS |
