Page Bond Gallery

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

HAZE: A SUMMER GROUP EXHIBITION AT PAGE BOND GALLERY, THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 2012.

The Page Bond Gallery is pleased to present Haze, a selection of works by Liz Akamatsu, Isabelle Abbot, Robin Braun, Karen Blair, Dragana Crnjak, Piero Fenci, Robert Llewellyn, Ann Lyne, Sarah Irvin, Julian Jackson, Amanda Means, Leslie Millar, Tim O’Kane, Corey Pemberton, Fiona Ross, Eleanor Rufty, Alyssa Salomon, Peri Schwartz, Bob Strini, Randy Toy, Kazaan Viveiros, and Brenda Hope Zappitell.

Piero Fenci is primarily known for his ceramics, and he draws inspiration from media as diverse as Japanese Muromachi armor, Etruscan pottery, and American Shaker craft.  Fenci’s artistic process is “elegant and simple” and above all, guided by intuition.  Fenci has said about his work “I do not want my work to reflect the traditional ceramic Leach / Hamada tradition of the functional pot.  I want my work to be surprising, an invention never seen before, a decorative move based on objects, mostly not made out of clay, that were once totally functional.”  In an age of mass-production, his functional objects are novel for their handmade character and the intimate connection they suggest between artist and viewer

Seasoned painter Ann Lyne’s sumptuous, highly worked surfaces are part abstract pattern and part observational study.  Her distinctive style has evolved over the more than five decades she has been in practice.  Her works are recognizable by their expressive, painterly brush strokes and the warmth and purity of their light.  Lyne’s works are inspired by vignettes of her own garden and the countryside of Virginia.  Charged with energy and individuality, they are a record of the joyful process of their making.

Alyssa Salomon is a Virginia-based photographer who has revived the nineteenth-century photographic process called cyanotype, based on the chemistry of iron salts, which imbues her images with a lavish antique Prussian Blue.  Her dream-like images suggest excerpts from a collective memory.  Salomon writes, “For the viewer, I hope these works recall an abundance of sights seen, held dear, and linked by recollection—scenes gathered through binoculars and focused eye, from shore and balcony, beyond the fence and within one’s garden.”

Brenda Hope Zappitell is a contemporary Abstract Expressionist painter based in Florida.  Her shimmering, animated paintings are the result of her ongoing exploration of the medium of acrylic painting.  In the tradition of expressionism, Zappitell’s paintings exhibit the active gestures of her brushstrokes, implying the time and duration involved in the artistic process, and allowing glimpses into the previous incarnations of each painting. Their active, gleaming surfaces reward extended viewing and celebrate the unique role of the artist’s hand in creation.

An opening reception for the artists will take place at the Page Bond Gallery on Thursday, June 28, from 7:00 to 9:00 pm.  The exhibition will remain on view through Friday, August 24.