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Spill
Featuring New Works by donna e perkins
Let’s meet and socialize while admiring new works or art! And listen to the artist talk!
The word “spill” can be a noun or a verb, although even the noun implies action. A spill can be intentional or accidental. It can reference the serious or the humorous as one can spill blood, tears, milk or the beans.
Works on Paper: These large paintings hang from the wall freely and unprotected, not obscured by glass, not bound by frame. They are of study, heavy watercolor paper primed with gesso both front and back before the painting process begins. They are painted while pinned onto a wall. As the paint spills across the top edge, a spray of water encourages the paint’s downward run.
Works on Boards: These smaller works on rigid wooden boards have a shallow frame or a defined edge. These are painted laying flat. The artist, perkins, explores the viscosity and translucency of layers of paint and continues until the result pleases her; gravity and chance have an effect here as well.
Deeper Meaning: perkins is experiencing the world as chaotic and out of control. She feels as if she is a grain of pigment trapped in the spill of political accidents; she finds this both fascinating and horrendous. What to do? Make calls, contributions, meetings, march. For sanity, go to the studio and make art.
Since 2009, perkins has had the privilege of working with choreographers and dancers. Working with dancers has
been important in the development of her approach to painting. She finds the painting process to be a solo dance
with the tactile sensuality of paint.
jhon r. stronks: The Loosening Grip, #WorkingWide, Spill, Drip, Slip, Slide
Survival is the grand plan. Coping. Sense making. Ground gaining. Obstruction moving. Passing. Leaving. Releasing. Brightening. Moving through, onward. Retreat-less. Resilience. Resistance conditioned with a persistent insistence that existence is not up for debate.
Attendee List
Narmina Mufidzada
Felicia Nica
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March 2, 2019
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Venue: Archway Gallery
Venue Website: http://www.archwaygallery.com/upcoming-exhibitions.html
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Description:
“Archway gallery, in essence, is an artist-owned and artist-operated gallery – a collective of 25 or more artists exhibiting in various genres: Abstract, traditional and surreal artists, sculptors and potters, photographers and print makers. If an artist leaves, the artists themselves vote on new artists who have applied for admission to the group. Within each genre, the gallery tries to avoid having two artists with the same style. Hence there is something for everyone at this well-run and well-organized gallery. That the gallery has been in existence for 40 years, speaks volumes in a world in which galleries spring up and disappear in a twinkling of an eye, and is an indicator of its continuing evolution, as well as its marketing and organizational skills. This is a gallery not to be missed in one’s visit to the typical top 5 private galleries in Houston.” —- Scott D.
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