April 16, 2009
Sandpoint Gallery exhibit opens April 23
The work of six painters from the UW School of Art will be featured in the Sandpoint Gallery’s next exhibition, New Works, which will be on display at the gallery, in Magnuson Park, from April 23 to May 8. The exhibition reception will be from 6 to 9 p.m. at the gallery on Friday, April 24.
The show that addresses the question of painting’s place in today’s world. The six artists attempt to form their individual responses to this question.
Amanda Baldwin’s work is personal and relates to philosophy. Whether the subject is landscape, portraiture, still life, or non-representational, her paintings are about finding what makes a person who he or she is.
Allison Davis paints portraits about individualism, emphasizing personality and persona through symbolic use of the objects around the figure. She uses painting language from previous centuries to create classic characters of our current time.
Through painting, Anastasia Goodin creates a dream world in which she can live out her fantasies of embodying female perfection. Tapping into an impossible but real wish to achieve doll-like proportions, Goodin’s self portraits, portraits of dolls, and still lifes of pill jars and Jameson bottles cut dangerously close to the main arteries of American culture.
Devon Midori Hale explores the physical interaction of humans as they encounter face to face. She questions ideas about how humans subconsciously react to space, posture, and color. Working with representational portraits and nonrepresentational space, she emphasizes the role of the body when encountering a painting.
Ashley Engelbert’s work expresses the awkwardness of trying to find a position in the world through her depiction and abstraction of buildings and landscape. She emphasizes anxieties related to place, such as the unfamiliar feeling of returning to her hometown.
Jacob Perkins creates paintings in which he develops his own color system, using mathematical logic and string theory. He uses a painting language related to blind contour drawing to make every painting function as a self-portrait.
The Sand Point Gallery is open from noon to 5 p.m., Thursday through Sunday. It is free and open to the public.
