On Thursday, May 28 Lauren Olitski’s exhibit Painting From Nature will be opening with a reception at Mitchell • GIddings Fine Arts from 5 – 8pm at 183 Main Street, Brattleboro.
Painting from Nature will be the featured exhibit from May 28 to June 28, 2015 and will include an artist’s talk on Sunday, June 14th at 5 pm. This talk will be free and open to the public.
Lauren Olitski is known for the vibrant and exciting surfaces and bold colors of her abstract acrylic paintings. In this body of work, her masterful infusion of organic elements (garnet, pumice, and molding paste) into the plastic, inorganic acrylic gels and paints gives her work a rare visceral authenticity.
“To fully absorb the riches of Olitski’s paintings, one must also step back and take in the entirety of each canvas. It is from this vantage point that the artist’s deft handling of form, rhythm, and energy come into view. . . . Olitski applies coarse- and medium-grained gels, paints of varying thickness, and collaged elements over a flat, stained ground. She splatters the surface, sometimes with enough force to create small craters in the material below – perfect, inverted paint bubbles. The end result is a shimmering, pulsing tour de force.”
– Danny Lichtenfeld, Director, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center
Mitchell • Giddings Fine Arts is a distinctive gallery located in Brattleboro, Vermont, in the heart of the Connecticut River Valley. MGFA specializes in contemporary fine arts and craft in a variety of media by regionally and nationally recognized artists. MGFA is open Wednesday through Sunday from 11-5 pm.
Contact: Petria Mitchell, Co-Director (petria@sover.net)
Mitchell•Giddings Fine Arts
183 Main Street
Brattleboro, VT 05301
mailing: PO Box 2125
W Brattleboro, VT 05303
(802) 251-8290
info@mitchellgiddingsfinearts.com
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