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MELANCHOLY BEAUTY OF AMERICA’S IINDUSTRIAL PAST FOCUS OF RETROSPECTIVE AT FENN GALLERY

WOODBURY, CT: Fenn Gallery of Contemporary Art opens its next show on Thursday, December 9, with “Anna Held Åudette, Painter of Ruins of Our Time” and Sculptures by David Burt. The Show runs through Sunday, January 16, 2005. Artist Reception on Saturday December 11th from 4-6 pm. is open to the public.

For more than 25 years, Audette has eloquently and romantically depicted the discarded and decayed relics of our recent industrial past. With great artistry and skill, Audette employs a restrained palette of blues, sepias and oranges to create finely balanced cropped compositions of modern ruins. Subjects as diverse as ships, machines, industrial buildings and scrap metal are reverently transported on the canvas from abandonment and neglect to a timeless beauty. For Audette,
the relics are a reminder that “in our rapidly changing world, the triumphs of technology are just a moment away from obsolescence. Yet these remains of collapsed power have a strength, grace and sadness that is both eloquent and impenetrable.” Audette’s provocative and somber depictions of our machine age past provide the viewer with an opportunity for reflection and reverence. Selected collectors of Audette’s work include The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY and the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT.

Also showing in the Gallery will be the sculptures of David Burt. Hammering copper, bronze and brass sheet metal into deeply contoured organic sculptures, Burt further enhances them with a richly colorful range of patinas. A spirit of buoyancy and flight animate both his lofty mobiles and his freestanding sculptures which seem to hover somewhere between figurative and abstract form. Burt’s enlivened sculptures have been in solo exhibitions at The Sculpture Center, NY, NY, and in numerous galleries both nationally and abroad, and are in the private collection of Malcolm Forbes.

Gallery Hours are Thurs-Sun. 11-5 p.m. Please call (203) 263-3449.
###FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For further information, contact:
Pamela Siemon (203) 263-3449