Unlimited Imagination A Three-Woman Collaboration of Paintings Mary Ellen Andrews, Joan Anderson, and Sheri Balke September 4-19 View reception details on The Art Center website The paintings in this exhibit are the collaborations and exchanges of three local female artists – Joan Anderson, Mary Ellen Andrews, and Sheri Balke. The three have come together in a pursuit that has taken them away from the formality of realism in lieu of gesture and abstract expression. Their work embodies strong emotions, inherent in the use of vibrant colors. The vast array of mediums used are married with seamless precision. The work is fun, passionate, and charged with transcendent meaning.
exposed our artistic vulnerability on a wailing wall – a wall of risk-taking, of spontaneous experimentations and investigations. In all cases, we struggled, laughed, shared ideas, and pushed our creative limits.
Art is an expression of the individual artist. Three voices in that expression presented us with an opportunity to stretch our imagination, allowing shapes to emerge in unexpected combinations. We three women came together for the common purpose of collaborating on a project about which we are passionate. We came Andrews states, “In some cases, we to depend and rely on the skills of collaborated on the artwork itself; each other. a work shaped by over-paintings, slashes, lines, and curves. We did a In this exhibit we have collaborative, “frag” exchange resulting in layered semi-collaborative, and individual fragmentations of handmade papers, paintings in mixed media, oil and old magazines, and canvas. We cold wax, acrylic, and collage."
"Form itself, even if completely abstract ... has its own inner sound." - Wassily Kandinsky
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