New Abstractions: Brenda Barnum & Marianna Levant
February 29 - April 12, 2008
Marianna Levant's intricate renderings on paper of vibrant, insatiable clusters and machine like objects seem to capture the moment of a sensual explosion. These works have masculine elements delicately inserted into whirling compositions of translucent colors. One can make out shapes of deconstructed bolts, plugs, and flowers scattered within a rich spectrum that floats and trembles.
Brenda Barnum's works are an offshoot of her flower paintings. These new abstractions in oil on canvas are a perfect mixture of organic and mechanical activity. They live in an interior space...still lifes with mechanical forms, reclining women in uncomfortable spaces...adapting quite well and thriving. The dirt, greens, and flesh are deflowered, mutated, piled up into a desirable sensory overload.
Marianna Levant's intricate renderings on paper of vibrant, insatiable clusters and machine like objects seem to capture the moment of a sensual explosion. These works have masculine elements delicately inserted into whirling compositions of translucent colors. One can make out shapes of deconstructed bolts, plugs, and flowers scattered within a rich spectrum that floats and trembles.
Brenda Barnum's works are an offshoot of her flower paintings. These new abstractions in oil on canvas are a perfect mixture of organic and mechanical activity. They live in an interior space...still lifes with mechanical forms, reclining women in uncomfortable spaces...adapting quite well and thriving. The dirt, greens, and flesh are deflowered, mutated, piled up into a desirable sensory overload.
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