Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Surface at Space Gallery Denver 9/26--11/1/2014


Surface (part 5 in the Art of the Real Series)
Showing: September 26th 2014 - November 1st 2014

Opening Reception: Friday, September 26th 6-9pm
Space Gallery is at 400 Santa Fe Drive, Denver CO 80204, 720.904.1088
 
How Many Miles to Babylon No. 3, c. 2014, 18"x24", oil, oil wash, polyester thread, copper roofing nails on unprimed cotton canvas, Nancy Charak artist


Space Gallery:  This show interests itself in the “non-objective”: art that is not representational, that contains no recognizable figures or objects, art that has no intentional derivation from any concrete matter.

The work for this show was selected because each artist uses the surface as a crucial element beyond a vehicle on which to apply a medium….either revealing what is behind/under the surface or concealing/altering/manipulating the surface itself and in a palette of white, black, gray, or neutral.

1 comment:

Judith Roth said...

Dear Nancy, you are as fine a writer as you are a visual artist. your words always catch me anew, whether of your doggie samgee, or of some winged victory, or of the reason or nature of your own work, or just a tree on a hill... Thank you for being you!

Just now listening to Arlo Guthrie on one of Garrison Keillor's old shows, singing some of his dad, Woodie's, old songs. He just said... " the guy wrote about 3,000 songs and published only about 200 of them. So they just keep coming out and he's been dead now for how many years already?!"
Guess that'll be about the same for all our work too!

Thinking about Barbara Aubin and her passing. She sure had a prolific output. I am thrilled to have been invited to select a piece of hers and it is a small folding wonder of a collage and watercolor statement of her political philosophy... a privilege to see it each day standing open on my piano...