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If you are in Louisville, I hope that you will visit PYRO Gallery, where I am a member. I always have some work on view there, in the MEMBERS' GALLERY on the lower level. PYRO is now located at 624 West Main Street. Hours are Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. until 6 p.m. My next exhibition at PYRO opens on August 17 and will be up through September 29. The new work is a new subject, created in a new (to me) medium. I have chosen to depict mythic couples, some historic (Gertrude and Alice, Akhnaten and Nefertiti) and some allegorical (Adam and Eve, Zeus and Hera). Working on paper (30"x22")with oil pastel and india ink, I use symbolic color, pattern and iconography to narate the varieties of the coupled state. The exhibit, Immortals: Images/Icons also features ceramic work by John McCarthy and jewelry by Mark Needham. More information is available at PYROgallery.com. You can view on this site my paintings based on the Seven Deadly Sins--Greed, Envy, Anger, Pride, Sloth, Gluttony and Lust-- and the judgment implied in their designations. I have used traditional symbols and color but have added my personal interpretations. This work has pushed me to new color relationships and richer painting surfaces. It was a change to create works which are not specifically about women. As I considered the Seven Sins, I decided to depict these very human failings as androgynous figures. After a trip to Barcelona this past summer, I was inspired by the extraordinary work by Gaudi and his colleagues, to create a broken dish mosaic. Mounted on a retaining wall along the Hancock Street side of my home, this mosaic not only adds color to the neighborhood, I have also used it as an opportunity to celebrate and recognize the diversity of this area of Louisville. Faces of people black and white, old and young, a Moslem woman in traditional head covering and a Christian woman in a going-to-church hat trimmed wth flowers are based on faces of my neighbors. The Louisville Courier-Journal did a Scene cover story on this project, and many people tell me that they have gone out of their way to visit it. Some have even brought me additional fragments of dishes, so it looks as if I will have a plenty of matrials to inspire me to continue doing some of this work! The wall is in the 1100 block of South Hancock Street in Louisville. |
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