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contact Two Artists Evoke Contrasting Emotions with Atmospheric Paintings Woodbury, CT - Fenn Gallery announces “Atmosphaera”, featuring paintings by Karen Green Recor and Tyson Skross. The show runs from August 9 - September 16, 2007. The public is invited to the Opening Reception on Sat., August 11th from 4-6 pm. Karen Green Recor’s paintings are moody and compelling. They present reductive, mostly rectangular, forms that are defined by large volumes of lush, earthy color which has been applied with palpable energy. Using palette knives, fingers, brushes, and by scratching, staining, dripping and using accidents to their best advantage, Recor constructs deeply layered textural surfaces which range from raw and edgy to tranquil and meditative. In the diptych Kundalini I and II, two 3 foot square canvases hang together as a unit. The upper portion of both paintings is thickly painted in sweeps of persimmon, burgundy and deepest garnet, while the lower sections are luminous, atmospheric swirls of peach and maize. Shadowy markings lightly applied in oil stick enhance the interplay of forms. Recor’s paintings are studies in lusciousness of color, simplicity in form and interest in linear variation. Recor received her M.F.A. in painting at Hartford Art School, Hartford CT. Her work has been published in Art in America, Art New England, and the New York Times, among others. From more than 230 CT and NY entrants, Tyson Skross was among the 12 emerging artists chosen for the prestigious Radius award in 2005, presented by the Aldrich Museum. Recognized as a “remarkable talent at yet a tender artistic age” by Philip Eliasoph in the CT Post, Skross spent his formative years in Geneva, Switzerland, and returned here to graduate cum laude from Maryland Institute College of Art. Skross describes himself as a landscape painter who focuses on architectural subjects, “using the medium to express the connection between a particular place and time”. His well-rendered paintings and drawings balance
linear intensity with a blurry atmospheric naturalism. Skross begins
by drawing an architectural reference, and then explores painting
in a limited palette of steely greys, muted blues and greens and
bits of red. What makes his work so gripping at such an early age
is his ability to realistically render familiar objects such as
water, buildings and trees, and to then pull the rug out from under
the viewer by his inclusion of dripping paint and unrealistically
high contrast juxtapositions. The emotive quality in his work is
unmistakable; the buildings and settings seem to be metaphors for
memories of what might have occurred within them. ###
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