Tuesday, May 05, 2009
First Friday Meanderings - May
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Harrison Center for the Arts
1505 N. Delaware St.
This First Friday saw Artur Silva with buoyed spirits after just getting news that the Fort Wayne Art Museum is purchasing two paintings. Silva had been holding a weeklong sale in his studio to make some additional space available.
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Current projects involve a lot of photography followed by intricate layering in Photoshop to produce complex designs produced in very limited edition prints. Political, social, and economic issues are portrayed in a subtly graphic fashion that allows the viewer to reach their own conclusions.
Entering the exhibition of Cheryl Paswater's "Garden Party" caused confusion over whether I had found a young students workshop show instead of the one for a highly educated New York artist. Paswater's paintings on paper had the appearance of being sketches for future ideas rather than material for a solo show. Her work from a few years ago is much more solid and engaging. She has deliberately simplified which is a perfectly fine goal, but it's like she's become more childlike. Instead of innocence, her abstractions and palette choices chased me straight out the back door.
Big Car Gallery
1043 Virginia Ave. Suite 215
Tom Christ's show was on my must-see list. I was intrigued by the online advertising showing this piece with the description of "...The face speaks volumes even when at rest, never completely muted in its stillness or silence. It is for me a constant and compulsive muse."
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Murphy Art Center
1043 Virginia Ave.
Congratulations to Jeremy Efroymson on the opening of his studio in the Murphy Arts Center. Efroymson's first show, "Signs", was a safe exhibit in space that still had that just-moved-in feel. His photographed subjects were exactly what the show title says: signs. The shots I overheard being talked about the most were of a church sign with a curved metal frame that looks like it could have once been a beer ad, and a peeling, faded wall painting for the Super Museum in Metropolis, IL (displaying painted images of Kirk Alyn, George Reeves, Christopher Reeve, and Dean Cain).
Dean Johnson Gallery
646 Massachusetts Ave.
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