Kathryn Frund (Philadelphia)

Forces of Balance
mixed media
6 x 6 inches
$800

Pieced History III
mixed media
20 x 20 inches
$3,200

My paintings and assemblages address the relationship between man and the environment through the use of symbolic landscapes. I explore the concepts of stewardship, consumption and control within the landscape framework. Society’s "marks" on the landscape and the manipulation of the environment are ongoing issues I seek to discuss.

The landscape explorations began during my studies at the Cleveland Institute of Art. The paintings have continuously evolved, nitially influenced by Romanticism, Modernism, Surrealism, and by turn-of-the-century poets such as T.S. Eliot.

In 1988, after a fifteen-year preoccupation with the Southwest, I started travelling to northern New Mexico. Inspired by the vastness and spiritual character of the landscape, and the rich presence of ancient cultures, my work began to reflect the region’s respect for the stewardship of the land and its resources.

This ongoing theme remains present in my recent work. The paintings address the conjunction of nature, industry, and science. They examine and define these fragile bonds through the juxtaposition of found objects, landscape imagery and the written word.

Represented by the Pentimenti Gallery

John Moore (Philadelphia)

John Moore
Near Lincoln Highway, Coatesville, 1988-92
oil on canvas
30 x 33 inches

Smoke
2005
oil on canvas
50 x 54 inches

Upper Bridge
2005
oil on canvas
50 x 50 inches

Represented by the Locks Gallery.

Neysa Grassi (Philadelphia)

Neysa Grassi
Red Current, 2005
oil on linen
18 1/2 x 20 1/8 inches

Neysa Grassi
The Return, 2006
oil on linen
16 x 16 inches

Neysa Grassi
Fever or Heat, 2005
oil on canvas
12 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches

Knots of paint which reveal little contrast criss-cross Neysa Grassi's paintings. These conduits are highways, nerve bundles, twisted knots of tissue, clotted vessels, or clogged freeways. They might be carrying messages -- perhaps urgent ones -- but their paths are complicated by contradiction and confusion. One imagines a sensation trying to travel through the gnarled miasma of paint which Grassi has woven in a typical picture. The sensation of a burn travels from finger tip to brain, shooting back a message of danger at light-speed over an impossibly complex network. But these hints of speed and complexity are contrasted against the primitive bluntness of Ms. Grassi's paintings. The antithesis of action painting, Ms. Grassi's pictures might almost constitute stasis painting; preferring the deliberate and slow to the gestural suggestion of kinesthesis.

Ms. Grassi received a certificate from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She has been included in several group and solo exhibitions locally and regionally, including a Challenge Exhibition at the Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, and the Biennial '93 at the Delaware Art Museum, and exhibitions at Paul Cava Gallery, Momenta Art Alternatives, Levy Gallery at Moore College of Art and Design, and the Beaver College Art Gallery. Her work is included in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Telefax, Bell of Pennsylvania, and Blue Cross of Pennsylvania. She is represented in Philadelphia by Locks Gallery.

Kate Bright

Plane
2004
acrylic and resin on linen
72 x 94 inches


Maguk Falls
2004
acrylic and resin on canvas
60 x 59 3/4 inches

Born in Suffolk, UK
Lives and works in London, UK

Represented by the Locks Gallery

Linda Dubin Garfield (MC)

Edge of the World, mixed media, 8" x 10"

Leaves of Autumn, mixed media, 12” x 15”

"Nature nurtures and inspires me. I combine elements of nature, texture and design along with the magic of the press, creating original pieces of art. When I like a subject, it stays in my mind. I am intrigued by memory and what remains in our mind’s eye. My work reflects scenes from previous travel. More than a report on how it was exactly, I am interested in my expressive and passionate response to the color and pattern of the landscape. My work is informed by an accumulation of such scenes and the pleasure I get from the printing process. Rather than representing every detail, I am interested in evoking the hidden and revealing the atmosphere. I am creating personal memoirs.

My focus on the process, not the outcome, frees me to be experimental. Following my passion and living my dream energize me to be productive and alive. I feel like I am now living out loud. I want to share that passion and joie de vivre with those seeing my work, triggering a memory or experience for the viewer."

Contact Information
621 Fariston Drive
Wynnewood, PA 19096
tel: 610-649-3174
e-mail: garf621@aol.com
www.lindadubingarfield.com

Vincent Romaniello (MC)

Untitled 640, 2006, mixed media on canvas,12" x 24"

Untitled 632, 2006, mixed media on canvas,12" x 12"

"This new work continues my exploration into how nature and humankind coexist and clash.

Like many artists today I work in a number of different media. For the last few years I have been making videos as well as paintings. Video is created using high tech digital hardware and software and I find it very stimulating and satisfying. But, I feel that the more advanced our technology gets, the stronger the case for making non-objective paintings that exploit paints natural, low tech qualities.

The surfaces I am making are growing increasingly thick and crusty. I have developed a method of using gesso as an important painting medium, not simply as a primer. I apply it using tools that I make and avoid direct mark making by letting fluid colors move and mix and behave the way that paint does naturally.

Most of the work is horizontal in format. Many are similar to the 16:9 aspect ratio used in movies and new wide format televisions. The space is both deep and flat. Color plays a major role, but each individual painting usually consists of a limited number of colors from the same family.

Technology does play a hand in the paintings. The inspiration to do this work comes from seeing the earth from high above, seated on jets and looking at pictures that I have seen from spacecraft and satellite maps."

Addie Hocynec (B)

Known for her vibrant, richly colored landscapes and her abstracts that evoke the moods of nature, Addie’ s style is both free flowing and imaginative, charged with spontaneity and energy. Her landscapes are meditations on the subtler aspects of nature and the seductive power of light, color and texture. She works in a variety of media including dyes on silk, pastels, oils , acrylics and photography. Her fascination with color and all its nuances is a driving force for her work.

Born and raised in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Addie graduated from Chestnut Hill College with a B.A. in Psychology and a minor in Art. She had all intentions of pursuing a career in art therapy but took a slight detour and ended up in the field of photography. She attended the Antonelli School of Photography for two years specializing in commercial photography and then worked for several different studios including the Seymour Mednick Studio in Philadelphia and a printing house in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

She has been painting on silk for the last 14 years. In 1992, she exhibited for the first time with the Bucks County Guild of Craftsmen concentrating mainly on wearable silks. The following year she was juried into the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen. Since that time she has focused mainly on fine art shows, such as Rittenhouse Square Fine Art Show, Immaculata University Art Show, and Phillips Mill Art Show. She exhibits regularly at many of the area’s juried and non-juried shows. Her work has been selected at over 59 open juried shows and she has won more than 38 awards for her work including the American Artist Magazine Award for the Northeast Watercolor Society and the American Framing Award for the Philadelphia Watercolor Society’s 102nd Anniversary Show.

Addie enjoys the challenge of working in a variety of media. For her, painting is a process of discovery-a willingness to take chances and explore what each medium has to offer.

Garth Herrick (MC, ML)

Garth Herrick has been acclaimed with several prestigious awards as a portrait and figurative fine artist. In 2006 he placed as a semifinalist in the Smithsonian Institution’s Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, and in their annual International Portrait Competition, the Portrait Society of America awarded him a second year with a certificate of excellence, following a finalist honors award in 2005. In 1991 he completed the well publicized master sculpture of the colossal Horse for Leonardo da Vinci, leading to the bronze monument installed in Milan, Italy. Having studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, with instructors Arthur DeCosta, Sydney Goodman, and Will Barnett, he received the William Emlen Cresson Memorial Traveling Scholarship in 1984, the Stewardson Prize, and first Thouron Prize, graduating with honors the following year. Herrick’s portrait commissions include five notable federal judges, a governor, mayor, a number of cultural, educational, and business leaders, along with everyday people and children, and hang in a number of public, corporate, and private collections. Herrick has several portraiture and landscape painting classes scheduled, and is available for commissions and workshops.

Amy Williams (MC, ML)

An Ardmore resident and recent graduate of the Pratt Institute. The colors, the form, the use of acrylic and pastel all make her paintings eye catching and thought provoking.

This piece in particular is an abstract illustration about how over 75% of the females in Africa bleach their skin.

Contact:
awill938@gmail.com
610-209-2975