Rita Baragona "The Closer I look"

Bowery Gallery

poster for Rita Baragona "The Closer I look"

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Rita Baragona explores the dance of perception in her paintings and sketchbook pages. The closer she looks, the more complex the process. For her, it is not enough to be an eye. The eye only gathers sensations, which the mind codifies. Baragona’s intent is to make tangible the patterns of energy found within matter’s solidity. She struggles with maintaining outward appearance while finding a visual language, which gets past the cultural preconceptions so ingrained in everyone’s mind. She is intrigued by the fact that our eyes move in erratic fractal patterns not unlike those she sees at the edges of form. The process of seeing for Baragona is an interaction between inner and outer perception, knowledge and feeling.

For Baragona
The closer I look, the more I see organic self-similar patterns in flowers, oceans, and trees.
The closer I look, the more I sense rhythms of light in color.
The closer I look, the more I see change, flux, and complexity.
The closer I look, the more chaos presents itself.
The closer I look, the more aware I am of my reality as illusion.
The closer I look, the more I am at one with what I look at.

In her one-person exhibition, Baragona’s paintings of oceans, floral still lifes, and landscapes exude a luminance that is derived not only from vision, but also from her entire sensory experience of nature. She loves transient light, and imbues her paintings with it. The exploration and expression of her understanding of nature is overridden by the beauty of the work.

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Schedule

from March 27, 2012 to April 21, 2012

Opening Reception on 2012-03-31 from 15:00 to 18:00

Artist(s)

Rita Baragona

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