FRESHART SF presents
ORGANICA:Abstractions in the Natural World
Eve Shen, June Li & Cecilia Welden at ARTERRA
Reception 4-7pm Thursday August 27th
300 Berry at 5th
The word Arterra connotes “artistry of the earth”. There is an organic sensibility in the design of a green building. While we have always taken from the earth to create structures for habitation, Arterra differs in that it “remembers where it comes from.” Recycling raw materials acknowledges that we are integral parts of a whole.
Organica: Abstractions in the Natural World joins three artists together by their willingness to use the language of paint: color, form, mass, and line to express visceral rather than intellectual concerns. Eve Shen, June Li, and Cecilia Welden abstract the world according to their uniquely feminine perspective. Their use of shimmering crimsons; pinks and gold, weighted with mahogany signify deeply felt experience. Repetitive, fluid and circular shapes, heavily massed yet translucent, reveal levels of depth and complexity .Cecelia Weldon uses wax encaustic to create an effect of movement and flickering light, trapped like a firefly in clasped hands. These are soulful paintings, mysterious, and resonant: By grounding abstract theory in “iris and bone”, these artists succeed in reclaiming it for themselves.
Georgianne Fastaia
Curator
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