CURRENT SHOW
"Kaleidoscope": Group Exhibition
Exhibition runs July 23 thru August
"Kaleidoscope": Group Exhibition featuring colorful sculptures and vessels in glass and metal. Show includes works by Steve Zaluski, Caleb Nichols, Jeremy Popelka, Peter Mangan, Stephen Main, Rod Sounik, Gail Taylor, Linda Cardell, Karen Ehart, Duncan McClellan and more.
“Fusion”: Roger Thomas’ Fused Glass Paintings
Exhibition runs June 10 – August 8, 2004
Roger Thomas, recognized as one of the premiere fused glass artists of today, presents new abstract and impressionist work ranging from small to multi-paneled, large sculptural wall pieces.
In the elaborate and sophisticated fused glass works of Roger Thomas, contradictory impulses meet and seemingly irreconcilable intentions co-exist. His goal, much like that of the Japanese Landscape artists he so admires, is to know nature so well that he can improve its resemblance to itself. At the same time, he will not conceal the presence of glass nor deny his chosen material a nature of its own. In order to reach these contrary goals, Thomas needs a full palate of specific techniques, ways of manipulating glass that he regularly invents and assiduously seeks to employ. The test of each technique is that it leaves no brush stroke, no sign of the human hand. Thus nature and art are reconciled, as both are manipulated to the artist’s purposes, yet each appears to remain itself, untouched.
Geoff Witchert, contributing writer, Glass Magazine and American Craft
Roger Thomas’s kiln formed art pieces are best described as fused glass paintings or mosaics. The images are both representational and abstract. He creates austere landscapes of his favorite vistas and poetic still-lives with his personal subjects. His symbolic works are visual conversations using layers of icons and graphics. Thomas interprets the juxtaposition of these elements as allegories and parables, narrative rendered as image. Each is a dialogue between artist and medium. Thomas’ vibrant paintings reveal a smart and effective color sensibility in his use of iridescence, translucence, and opaque lines overlaying and challenging his edges. He shares how simply something can be said; how many marks, what colors, what textures communicate the subject most clearly.
Thomas says, I dream of things I assume to be a part of my daily life, which I slowly realize don’t exist, except in my visions. If they are insistent enough, pervasive enough to give me a sense of loss over their not being physically real, I try to create them.
Thomas’s work is held in many private and corporate collections, including Children’s Hospital Boston; Hewlett Packard; Pacificare; Weil, Gotshal, and Manges; Kaiser Permanente, and the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian.
PAST SHOWS
Monumental Outdoor Sculpture by Dale Rogers and Rob Lorenson
Exhibition runs May 1 – June 11, 2004
L’Attitude Gallery and Sculpture Garden showcases two steel sculptors widely known for their mastery of technique and large-scale outdoor sculpture. Experience Dale Rogers’ balance of natural elements with fabricated materials and Rob Lorenson’s love of sweeping steel, industrial forms. Both Lorenson and Rogers capture and transform space, creating a compelling contemporary statement in the landscape.
Monumental runs from May 1 through June 11.
Nationally recognized for his large steel sculptures, Rob Lorenson brings “Monumental” to both large and small environments. Drawn to the modern, stainless steel is masterfully crafted into three-dimensional line drawings. While his forms resist the cube, fractured discs break up space by framing it with thick lines of steel. His work is full of manufactured aesthetics, a clinical removal of the artist’s touch to the surface. I make the work look manufactured as though it were an industrial product, says Lorenson
Robert Lorenson received his BFA from the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls and an MFA from Northern Illinois University in DeKalb. Since 1999 he has lived and worked in southeastern Massachusetts. His works have been included in a number of exhibitions including Pierwalk in Chicago, The Sarasota Season of Sculpture, and the Convergence International Arts Festival in Providence, Rhode Island. His work is included in numerous public and private collections.
Dale Rogers has created a dialogue between natural and fabricated materials. The pairing of rusted and brushed steel, with the natural inconsistency of stone, creates an intriguing juxtaposition in the landscape. The steel relies on the stone’s fragility as a dynamic, compositional tool. Roger’s kinetic adaptations expand his treatment of his outdoor monoliths
Dale Rogers, Jr., has made a full circle during his first thirty years. In high school, he was active in art classes and felt that creativity was his rock during his adolescent years. After pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, he returned home to work with the family farm and bottled water plant. Rebuilding and maintenance of the machinery was Dale’s facet of the business, and his creativity began to develop once again. My metal work has now become more precise and focused on combinations of stone and steel forms. My goal is to achieve a sense of balance and harmony within conflicting materials.
SAVE THE DATE
"Intrigue":New Works by Sheryl Ellinwood and Mark Hursty
Exhibition runs September 2 – October 15, 2004
Artist Reception Thursday, September 2, 2004, 6-8pm
Sheryl Ellinwood's serene and contemplative sculptural glass narratives are juxtaposed against Mark Hursty's vessels and sculptures in slumped and blown glass, dramatic in their impulsive textures and bold elegance.
Intrigue runs from September 2 through October 15. Meet Sheryl Ellinwood and Mark Hursty at the Opening Reception Thursday, September 2, 6 - 8pm.
"Stone and Ceramic, Abstracted": New Works by Paul Braun and Michael Gustavson
Artist Reception Saturday, October 2, 2004, 1-4pm
Paul Braun's stone sculptures command attention- their subtle lines and spaces providing visual focus from every angle. Michael Gustavson's raku ceramic wall panels and vessels are graceful in their form yet bold in design, an abstract "painting" in composition.
Stone and Ceramic, Abstracted runs from October 2 through November 18, 2004. Meet artists Paul Braun and Michael Gustavson at the Opening Reception Saturday, October 2, 1 - 4pm.
"Great Gifts, Small Packages"
November 19 - December 31, 2004
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