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| The Mid Day Garden No. 3 acrylic on wood panel 2014 |
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| Burano No. 2 acrylic on wood panel 2014 |
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| Burano No. 3 acrylic on wood panel 2014 |
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| Burano No. 6 acrylic on wood panel 2014 |
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| The Mid Day Garden No. 2 acrylic on wood panel 2014 |
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| The Mid Day Garden No. 1 acrylic on wood panel 2014 |
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| Me enjoying Taresa Stanley's Paintings |
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| Pandora's Garden, 2014 acrylic on wood panel Top Row: numbers 1-6 Bottom Row: numbers 7-12 |
New Paintings: Paintings by Taresa Stanley
Stremmel Gallery Presents
Annex Gallery February 5-March 22, 2015
Gallery Hours: 10:45AM-5:00PM
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discipline that the exhibition represents is painting. The medium used, which
is acrylic paint on wooden panel, is the same for all of Taresa Stanley’s paintings.
The theme of her work is organic in form. In each piece there is an abstract
like mushroom form with spots on it. Each mushroom like form in each painting, however,
is a different color and size. Also the angle of perspective in each piece is
different. For example some show the mushroom form as if the viewer were
underneath it while others show is as if the viewer were standing over it and
looking down. The imagery presented in her work is definitely abstract in form
and the background somewhat resembles a sort of abstract like landscape in
which the mushroom forms inhabit. The colors that she used are mostly muted and
earthy aside from the bright red and orange mushroom forms that repeat in each
painting. She used a variety of warm brown values along with yellow ochre and a
splash of blue. Her composition in each piece is busy with a lot going on in
the background. Her work I very interesting and it causes the viewer to really
stop and look in order to try to figure out what the content of each painting
seems to be. Personally I enjoyed viewing her work in the exhibition, however,
I would not buy her work because it is not really my style and it sort of has a
childlike element to it. For example the spotted mushroom forms really reminded
me of the video game mushroom from Mario and Luigi.
Perhaps the artist was using the organic imagery to tell a story? As you stated before, they definitely have a "mushroom" look to them and I love your physical critique of the work. I cant help but reflect on Emmy Whitehorse's work when I look at these. She's a Navajo contemporary artist that I have come to admire. She focused a lot of her work on organic abstract imagery, especially of Navajo reservations.
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