2 May 2008 to 1 June 2008
hours: saturday and sunday 12-6 pm and by appt
OPENING RECEPTION FRIDAY MAY 2, 6 - 9 pm
Metaphor Contemporary Art
382 Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn
NY 11217
New York, NY
New York
North America
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Gabriele Evertz Four Reds and Iceblues acrylic on canvas, 144 x 108 inches
FOUR ABSTRACT PAINTERS COVER THE SPECTRUM OF STYLE AND COLOR
GABRIELE EVERTZ MARGARET NEILL JULIE GROSS ELIZABETH TERHUNE
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METAPHOR MAY 2 - JUNE 1, 2008
OPENING RECEPTION FRIDAY MAY 2, 6 - 9 pm
ARTISTS PANEL DISCUSSION: JUNE 1, 4 pm 382 atlantic avenue, brookly, ny 11217 718. 254. 9126
gallery hours: saturday and sunday 12-6 pm and by appointment
between Hoyt and Bond Streets in downtown Brooklyn, 10 minutes from Manhattan near the B.A.M. cultural center. F train to Bergen St., A/C/G train to Hoyt - Schermerhorn, 4 or 5 to Nevins St., 2 or 3 to Hoyt
Gabriele Evertz brings an op art sensibility to her enormous acrylic on canvas created especially for the gallery's 18 ft ceiling height. Her color is not shy and literally vibrates with a rubber necking intensity. Evertz's precisely executed shimmering vertcal bands result from her mathematical and musical approach to her color system and repeated pattern composition. This work is both intellectual and sexy... it sings like a Puccini aria but is timed and tuned like a Philip Glass minimalist opera.
Julie Gross' large site specific gouache on vellum window installation also makes use of clean lines and color that vibrates. Though her colors are of a subtler nature. She is deeply conversant with color theory and works to combine unlikely bedfellows of discordant hues that never the less live happily together in her works. Gross' smoothly painted biomorphic shapes of quirky bubbles and droplets have an abstract relationship to Japanese pop art and anime.
Margaret Neill also combines discordant colors to happy effect, in her new acrylic on canvas paintings. Her palette ranges across the spectrum from nature inspired color to acid intensity. Neill's paintings too have an aqueous biomorphic quality. However their fluid painterly style, employing glazes and scraped surfaces, veers away from pop art and flows instead into nature abstracted with an impish edge.
Elizabeth Terhune's color is of a more subdued and earthy quality in her oil on linen canvases. Her eccentric musical compositions bring to mind the playful seriousness of Paul Klee while her rough painterly style recalls Philip Guston. Her layered and intuitive painting approach with its thick surfaces and myriad forms embraces ambiguity to create an experience rich with poetics.
metaphor contemporary art is located between Hoyt and Bond Streets in downtown Brooklyn, 10 minutes from Manhattan near the B.A.M. cultural center. by subway: F train to Bergen St., A/C/G train to Hoyt - Schermerhorn, 4 or 5 to Nevins St., 2 or 3 to Hoyt by car: from Manhattan via Brooklyn Bridge: exit Brooklyn Bridge and continue straight ahead to Atlantic Ave., from Manhattan via Manhattan Bridge: exit Manhattan Bridge and continue straight ahead on Flatbush Ave, turn right to Atlantic Ave. other points of departure: BQE to Atlantic Ave exit parking: easy street parking with inexpensive meters right on the block or with no meters around the corner.
