Evelyn Twitchell "Drawn from Nature"

Bowery Gallery

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Bowery Gallery presents Drawn from Nature, an exhibition of paintings, drawings and reliefs by Evelyn Twitchell. In this new body of work, veering between abstraction and representation, Twitchell arrives at a poetic distillation of the organic forms around her. The imagery, based on nests, trees, birds, seeds and water, explores themes of birth, struggle, transition, germination and decay. These works are not created in the landscape but, rather, are ruminations from the studio — images that evoke the forces and rhythms of the natural world.

As Brice Brown describes Twitchell’s artworks in the show’s catalogue essay, “Animal, vegetable and mineral are all drawn from nature, essences tapped at the source –– that 'tangible and sensational world' just outside our window –– and distilled into metaphors oscillating between diminutive and grand (the simple tumbling motion of a climbing weed simultaneously champions the dignity of a reviled garden nuisance and the irrepressible human will).”

Twitchell’s work has been favorably reviewed in The New York Sun, The New Republic and Whitewall magazine. Writing in The New Republic, Jed Perl noted that in Twitchell’s paintings “the brushstrokes that reveal leaf, flower, fruit, vegetable, table, and easel are also simultaneously dissolving these forms into line, pigment, and pattern [and that] there is a gently twinkling quality, at moments reminiscent of Jacques Villon’s paintings.” And of her paintings included in the 2009 group show “Inside Abstraction,” at Brooklyn’s Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, curator Vered Lieb wrote “Evelyn Twitchell visibly struggles with nature as if her hand were literally interpreting signals from the very movement of things that grow in the earth. These ‘seismic’ works are simultaneously strong and delicate.”

Drawn from Nature is the artist’s fourth New York solo show and her first one-person exhibition at Bowery Gallery. Twitchell’s work has been included in group shows around the country, including the contemporary art fairs Pulse Miami and Pulse New York. Her work has been featured in The Sienese Shredder and used as cover art for the literary journal TriQuarterly and for Cortège, a book of poems by Carl Phillips. A selection of her works on paper may be viewed online at Lohin Geduld Gallery’s Drawing Atlas. Evelyn Twitchell lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Milton, PA.

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from September 07, 2010 to October 02, 2010

Opening Reception on 2010-09-11 from 15:00 to 18:00

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