Galatea Fine Art announces the “NE COLLECTIVE IV” juried show, curated by Kaveh Mojtabai and Brian Goslow, both from ArtScope magazine. Click here to read and download the prospectus.

 

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GREGORY WRIGHT: FORCES

“My series, FORCES, represents the dissemination and movement of information and the unspoken word. In our world of immediate technology, information is in constant motion. In positive terms, we are able to reach out and connect across countless miles almost immediately. We can move information about in an instant. Are we ever satisfied? Our obsession to continually keep impersonal contact has severed the personal connectivity among people, but sets us physically in a frenzied quest for more technology. What we set in motion-the information we put out-is in our control; how it is interpreted-how it continues to move-is beyond. The questions being, what drives this into motion and what is the force behind it? It can be a visceral response, a synaptic reaction, an awakening in the soul, or an interplay of each. In the paintings, various organic shapes represent bodies of information that move about, morph, combine, and reemerge into something other than their original state. The dialogue and the outcome among the shapes produce various results, which in turn are set on their own course. As Hieronymus Bosch used allegorical scenes and elaborate fantasy imagery in his paintings as a commentary on the social and religious climate of the 15th and 16th centuries, I react to today’s social networking with Baroque-like compositions of beautiful complication.” – Gregory Wright

MARSHA NOURITZA ODABASHIAN: THE EXEGESIS OF FROSTED CAKE

“Frosted cake and confectionary ornaments enhance or mask the meaning of many celebrations. For example, sugary flowers, pastel eggs, marshmallow chicks, chocolate bunnies, frosting ribbons and other decorations hover above the meaning of Easter, a holiday commemorating a resurrection only made necessary by a preceding crucifixion. This mixed media piece, “Frosted Cake and Other Delights”, is composed of poplar sticks of various lengths, propped at various angles, each adorned with a welter of hybrid animals and plant forms in candy tinted Model Magic and “icing”. The piece addresses parallels and recurring cycles of grief and bliss.

The wooden pieces, sold for construction, are made to last. Model Magic, marketed as a children’s medium, is non-toxic, self-hardening, foamy- when- fresh, light and fragile when cured. It’s long term properties are unascertained.

The formal composition reflects this uncertain mix of durability and impermanence. The metamorphic Model Magic forms are frozen in tableaux ambiguously suggesting symbiosis and predation, whimsy and menace. The piece asks its viewer to consider the relations between nostalgia, pleasure, consumption, fragility and perdurance.” – Marsha Nouritza Odabashian

THE JOY OF LIFE: GROUP EXHIBITION JURIED BY JOE KITSCH

“As winter passes, spring brings new life and is a time of renewal. This time of year is a metaphor for the cycle of life. This May, artists from across the country will be participating in Galatea Fine Art’s show, “The Joy Of Life”, juried by Joe Kitsch, a Boston-based artist and curator. This show is dedicated to love ones we have lost and to those who continue on. It is important to celebrate their memories by living and experiencing the joy of life.” – Joe Kitsch