FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information, please
contact
Pamela Siemon, 203.263.3449
FENN GALLERY ANNOUNCES “AROUND THE CORNER; URBAN LANDSCAPES
AND RAKU
SCULPTURE
Woodbury, CT - Fenn Gallery announces its next exhibit entitled
“Around the Corner”, featuring the urban landscapes
of Constance
LaPalombara and the raku sculpture of Eva St. John. The show runs
from
June 23 - July 31, 2005. Artist Reception on Saturday, June 25th
from
4 - 6 p.m. is open to the public.
New Haven resident Constance LaPalombara is a master painter of
the
urban landscape. With an eye keenly attuned to the emotive qualities
of light and shadow, a subtle palette and strong sense of composition,
she achieves a soft geometry and glow in her work.
In a March 2005 New Haven Register review of her cityscapes,
Judy Birke
extols the “ lovely passages of smoky shades in a limited
palette of
muted tones (which) create a luminous blend of warmth and coolness,
intimacy and openness.”
People are conspicuously absent from LaPalombara’s
canvases. Her
scenes of buildings and streets register as a frozen moment, and
suggest the melancholy qualities of modern urban life, and the
distances that separate people. Although not subjects in her paintings,
the work invariably makes reference to human presence whether through
a
carefully accentuated street light, stop sign, parked car or traffic
cone. One senses that someone may have just turned the corner out
of
site, heightening the painting’s psychological hold.
Constance received her MFA from Tyler School of
Art, Temple
University, and has exhibited extensively in Connecticut, New York,
Maine and in Italy.
Morris resident Eva St. John artfully marries an
ancient discipline
with her very personal modern aesthetic to create her RAKU pottery
and
sculpture. Capitalizing on the metallic effects and dark crackle
lines
made possible with RAKU, a technique originating in the ancient
tea
ceremonies of 16th Century Japan, Eva’s vessels have a refined
rusticity and earthy beauty.
Her luminous, multihued glazes seem to flicker and
dance upon the
graceful surfaces, all the while bound together by a lacy network
of
random yet beautiful crackling which is one of the hallmarks of
the
RAKU method. Eva learned the RAKU discipline from a master in Uzes,
France, and studied figurative sculpture at the National Academy
of
Design in New York, NY.
For additional information, please call 203.263.3449,
or visit
www.fenngallery.com.
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