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Upcoming Show • July 5-28, 2018

Evelyn Pye . Summer II

 OPENING / AMHERST ARTS NIGHT PLUS
 Thursday, July 5, 5-8 pm

ART FORUM 
Thursday, July 19, 7:30 pm
The speaker is Peter DeCamp Hanes, a sculptor based in Cambridge, MA,
and a founding member of Boston Sculptors Gallery.

Free and open to the public,
the Art Forum is supported in part by a grant from the Amherst Cultural Council, 
a local agency, supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.   
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                                                                           Summer by Evelyn Pye
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​“I think that one wants from a painting a sense of life. The final suggestion, the final statement, has to be not a deliberate statement but a helpless statement. It has to be what you can't avoid saying.”
​                                                                                          – Jasper Johns
 
Evelyn Pye’s paintings fill the gallery with color and light. They exult. The paintings are based on the world observed, but even more, on the moment felt.
 
Using a range of color, tone, and directionality, Pye explores the round of the year, Time passing through its seasons. The current show consists primarily of landscapes ranging from wintry whites to a riot of lush, exuberant, summer greens. The arrival of spring is light and iridescent, while autumn folds pinks and browns into a sturdy, built landscape. The observer may not notice the changing of the seasons, but will certainly see, and feel the vitality of making that underpins these paintings. 
 

                                                                      Summer II by Evelyn Pye

The exhibit also includes an ensemble entitled In Conversation: Matisse/Diebenkorn, which plays with works by Henri Matisse and Richard Diebenkorn. These small paintings place a Diebenkorn mug or folding chair in a Matisse interior, or a Matisse fish bowl or flower vase in a Diebenkorn California room. Vivid in color and strong in form, the paintings are also subtly humorous, even friendly, as the masters talk to each other and invade each other’s space.
 
​“A painting is primarily a verb, not a noun—an event first and only secondarily an image.” – Elaine de Kooning
 
For the Art Forum on July 19, Peter DeCamp Haines will look at artistic strategies for expressing the ineffable- focusing primarily on sculpture.  Following the thread of abstraction in pre-human and human history, he will touch on the deep roots of aesthetics- as evidenced in ritual stone axes, made by hominids hundreds of thousands of years before the earliest cave paintings.  As Noguchi wrote: “Abstraction is a way to convey the intimate relationship between contemporary man and ancient, universal sources.”

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