WENDY ARTIN
"If the problem of art is to make something alive. in whatever language it takes to be understood, she [Wendy Artin] has succeeded by inventing a language that has classical roots but a visceral immediacy."
"Her marks on the paper can be perfectly representational or completely abstract. They can seem three-dimensional or almost calligraphically spare. She does not sketch first or test the water in any way. She dives in."
Adele Chatfield-Taylor, FAAR
President, American Academy in Rome
Wendy Artin - APHRODITE , 2000 exhibition catalog, Gurari Collections
"Many people draw well, with charcoal, watercolor, pencil, ink; but few people draw well with paper itself. The ability of an artist to allow the paper to afford light to a subject is one of the great underused aspects of contemporary drawing. When it happens, it means that the artist is seeing the subject within the space of the paper itself, which is a potentially deep and live space as Wendy Artin proves in her masterful work. This quickened sense of the paper-as-light, manipulated by the skillful shadow and volume of her watercolors or charcoals, makes her work alive like few other artists'. Whether flesh stone, or landscape is being depicted, the sheer pleasure of weight and shadow and volume resonating in her materials is a dream come true for another artist like myself, a kind of realism that compels delight and wonder."
April Gornick, artist
Wendy Artin - 2001 exhibition catalog, Gurari Collections
"I have never seen such grace, such sureness, so much sexy pleasure from the hand of a living artist. ...To watch her work is to watch a master. She gets all the anatomy, all the movement, and as well, imbues her subjects with luminosity that is the special light of Rome. Her gift is this illumination, this glow, that animates the human form and argues for its divine creation."
Eric Fischl, artist
Wendy Artin - 2001 exhibition catalog, Gurari Collections
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VICO FABBRIS
Over the last decade or more, Vico Fabbris has been exploring a body of art work, "BOTANICALS UNKNOWN" “the natural world of plants….which are of an imaginary world that never really existed.” The notion that like other species botanicals are becoming extinct due to “negative environmental impact” the artist has responded to this issue by replacing what has been lost with those of his own creations. In the ethereal watercolor medium an imagined context is engaged or disengaged from each flower thereby inventing a “whole botanical history”.
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.
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