| Abstraction at Sandra Phillips |
| Written by Ken Hamel | |
| Thursday, 22 May 2008 | |
AbstractionMel Strawn, Virginia Maitland, Ania Gola-Kumor, Bebe Alexander, Jane TroyerSandra Phillips GalleryMay 16 – July 5, 2008Guest curator: Sally PerishoOpening Reception: Friday May 16, 5:30 - 7:30 pm Book signing with Mel Strawn to introduce his new book: "Mel Strawn Drawings" Sunday afternoon May 31, 3:00 to 4:30 pm  Artist Virginia Maitland  Artist Jane Troyer  Artist Ania Gola-Kumor Featuring: Mel Strawn - drawing, Virginia Maitland - painting, Ania Gola-Kumor - painting, Bebe Alexander - ceramics, Jane Troyer - painting
(from the press release) Virginia Maitland is one of Colorado's most acclaimed artists, widely known for her mastery of color and ethereal style. "With Maitland, it's all about painting…..color, surface and content" wrote art critic Mary Voelz Chandler, Rocky Mountain News. Ania Gola-Kumor is a respected teacher at the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design who uses layer after layer of pigment. Michael Paglia, art critic, Westword, has written of Kumor: "I often think of Gola-Kumor as one of the region's best and most overlooked abstract painters." The drawings of Mel Strawn (his new book covers a 50 year period of drawing) are essentially studies of things, people, and places. Drawing became his "home base" since he taught life classes for decades at the University of Denver and Antioch College Guest curator Sally Perisho selected historically-significant Strawn drawings from 1950s-1970s for this exhibition. Bebe Alexander's ceramics are influenced by man made objects particularly architecture with an emphasis on the 1920's era of design. Guest curator Sally Perisho has invited Dallas-based artist Jane Troyer to take part in the exhibition. Her new paintings express the thickness and thinness of a multitude of color. Troyer says the freedom and strength of the mid-century Abstract-Expressionists influence her work.
Mary Chandler's RMN review of the exhibit: A Quick Course In Abstraction
Sandra Phillips Gallery
 Virginia Maitland - Spacious Light
 Mel Strawn - Conflict |
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