Past Show
INWARD & OUTWARD
Hand-made Books by Laura Holland
Prints and Paintings by Janet Walerstein Winston
July 1-31, 2021
Artist Forum Online:
Thursday, July 15, at 7:30 pm
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Gallery A3 Opens with INWARD & OUTWARD
INWARD & OUTWARD
In INWARD & OUTWARD, at Gallery A3 in July, Laura Holland turns inward, to discover still lives amidst domestic clutter in a series of hand-made accordion books, while Janet W. Winston looks outward—up and down and across the horizon—to interpret beauty in the land and in constantly changing colors, weather, and movement in oil paintings and monotype prints.
LAURA HOLLAND
Laura Holland found that the coronavirus, and particularly the lockdown, shifted the focus and scale of her artwork. “As my home became my world, I discovered small-scale, intimate still lives in eggshells on the counter, carrot peels in the sink, and pans of soapy water. And as the lockdown stretched on, my photographs of these little still lives became increasingly more abstract. I strung images together in a 16-panel accordion book, Stay-at-Home Still Lives, which grew to twice the length of large-scale pieces I made before. The zig zag structure, stretching over 10 feet long, was unwieldy and close to unmanageable—which mirrored the tension and confusion I felt in dealing with a global pandemic. At the same time, with small-scale accordion books like Typewriter and Stringed Instrument, I peered deeper inside domestic objects and pushed images further toward abstraction, cutting and folding large photographs and reassembling them in the new context of consecutive panels.”
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JANET W. WINSTON
Turning her gaze up to the sky and down into the earth, Janet W. Winston makes monotypes and large paintings based on water holes in the Yucatan, views along the Connecticut River, and the sheer canyon walls and distant thunder clouds in the Southwest of the United States. “The importance of the sun and stars in the Mayan culture and cosmology influenced some of my monotypes. The Yucatan geology of porous limestone earth, which has beautiful, clear aqua water-filled sinkholes, piqued my interest for the paintings Cenote 1 and Cenote 2,” she explains. Light, shadow, shifting colors, and the beauty in unusual geography are major inspirations for her art. “From an intimate miniature scale to the far view of magnificent mountains, Nature can swell my heart,” Janet says. “I combine organic shapes from nature with geometric lines from architecture, using loose brushstrokes and mark making in my paintings.”
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ART FORUM ON ZOOM
At an Artist Forum Online, on Thursday, July 15, at 7:30 pm, Laura and Janet will talk about their work and invite conversation and questions. The event is free and open to the public. The program is supported in part by a grant from the Amherst Cultural Council, a local agency, which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
Click here to register.
INWARD & OUTWARD
In INWARD & OUTWARD, at Gallery A3 in July, Laura Holland turns inward, to discover still lives amidst domestic clutter in a series of hand-made accordion books, while Janet W. Winston looks outward—up and down and across the horizon—to interpret beauty in the land and in constantly changing colors, weather, and movement in oil paintings and monotype prints.
LAURA HOLLAND
Laura Holland found that the coronavirus, and particularly the lockdown, shifted the focus and scale of her artwork. “As my home became my world, I discovered small-scale, intimate still lives in eggshells on the counter, carrot peels in the sink, and pans of soapy water. And as the lockdown stretched on, my photographs of these little still lives became increasingly more abstract. I strung images together in a 16-panel accordion book, Stay-at-Home Still Lives, which grew to twice the length of large-scale pieces I made before. The zig zag structure, stretching over 10 feet long, was unwieldy and close to unmanageable—which mirrored the tension and confusion I felt in dealing with a global pandemic. At the same time, with small-scale accordion books like Typewriter and Stringed Instrument, I peered deeper inside domestic objects and pushed images further toward abstraction, cutting and folding large photographs and reassembling them in the new context of consecutive panels.”
Click for Laura's sales gallery.
JANET W. WINSTON
Turning her gaze up to the sky and down into the earth, Janet W. Winston makes monotypes and large paintings based on water holes in the Yucatan, views along the Connecticut River, and the sheer canyon walls and distant thunder clouds in the Southwest of the United States. “The importance of the sun and stars in the Mayan culture and cosmology influenced some of my monotypes. The Yucatan geology of porous limestone earth, which has beautiful, clear aqua water-filled sinkholes, piqued my interest for the paintings Cenote 1 and Cenote 2,” she explains. Light, shadow, shifting colors, and the beauty in unusual geography are major inspirations for her art. “From an intimate miniature scale to the far view of magnificent mountains, Nature can swell my heart,” Janet says. “I combine organic shapes from nature with geometric lines from architecture, using loose brushstrokes and mark making in my paintings.”
Click for Janet's sales gallery.
ART FORUM ON ZOOM
At an Artist Forum Online, on Thursday, July 15, at 7:30 pm, Laura and Janet will talk about their work and invite conversation and questions. The event is free and open to the public. The program is supported in part by a grant from the Amherst Cultural Council, a local agency, which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
Click here to register.
