Six members of the Blue Mountain Gallery will be represented in an exhibit from today, August 18th, to August 29th. There will be an opening reception on August 20, from 5 to 8.
This end of summer special installation features new gallery members Mary Lou Alberetti, Bob Alberetti, Joan Marie Kelly and Pamela Boily, and returning members Michael Chelminski and Gina Sawin. The works include a wide variety of themes and media,and represent the ongoing dialogue between abstraction and representation in which Blue Mountain has been long engaged.
The attached image includes details of their work, alphabetically from upper left in clockwise order. More information about each artist is on links from their names.
In Mary Lou Alberetti?s mixed media compositions, architectural references, some literal, some more abstract, offer an aura of timelessness and antiquity through the surfaces of multi-layered colors and textures.
Influenced by his travels and research in Italy, France,Turkey, Spain and Ireland, BobAlberetti?s work reflects his love of color, the unique qualities of materials and the emotional responses evoked from abstraction. He works in oil,collage, mixed media, watercolor and encaustic.
Pamela Boily has woven the theme of natural disasters,such as Hurricane Katrina in her once home state of Louisiana, and their aftermath into her work, which reflects the fragility of the human condition and how nature can disrupt an ordered life in an instant.
Michael Chelminski deeply explores the dynamic relationship between abstraction and painting directly from nature, as his work has evolved over the years from more traditional landscapes to a more abstracted synthesis of sensory awareness.
Joan Marie Kelly is asocial art practitioner, implementing participatory art workshops with micro-communities of Indonesia, India, and other parts of the globe, in order to expose and gain understanding of visual iconography embedded in those cultures.
For Gina Sawin, birds symbolize delicate ecological balances and, as a motif in her paintings, they suggest our spiritual - and perhaps tenuous - connection to the planet.
The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 12 to 6. For more information email, info@bluemountaingallery or call 646-486-4730.
