Carol Flaitz and Joyce Pommer "Brightness and Contrast"
Skylight Gallery NYC
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Skylight Gallery presents its next exhibition, a two person show of recent work by Carol Flaitz and Joyce Pommer called Brightness and Contrast. Also featured is the work of Jean Marc Superville-Sovak.
With Brightness and Contrast Skylight continues its series of visual “conversations” between two artists. Carol Flaitz and Joyce Pommer both go to the ends of the spectrum of darkness and light and the tension between, but start from polar opposites and don’t so much come together as land in the same universe, before both press on to worlds unknown.
Carol Flaitz was originally inspired by nano-photography inside computer chips, and the “Wonderland” like landscapes that were revealed between the layers of metal. She abstracts those natural designs into panels with layers of color, texture and glazes, often creating cracks, or “fissures” deep into the wood and behind the panels. With her treatments of special oxides and metallics, her large dark works begin to preternaturally glow, bringing light into darkness, focusing the eye on the expressive and reflective that crawls from the crevices of the earth, in her case at one billionth of a meter, to catch our attention; to say “here I am.” From the dark comes the light.
Conversely, Joyce Pommer creates richly textured and colored multi-material collages and then covers this visual cacophony with white paint or gesso, leaving only small uncovered windows for us to catch a glimpse of the carnival within, the rest of the colors and materials pressing against the backside of the white field, yearning to break through. Shapes in paint, paper and fabric exude a strong rhythmic sense, while the white field protects us from being overwhelmed and gives us space to peek and to play. The contrast between the dark or saturated colors and the white foreground is a teasing dance, to be sure.
Jean-Marc Superville Sovak likes to build things: things like ideas, and bigger ideas, from smaller, seemingly less important elements. His latest direction has been to take historical bricks, either from destruction sites or from old brick yards, and give them one last chance to shine with glory as new columns and arches and other structures, and with a bit less restriction. Jean-Marc gives new life to these humble relics of our not-too-recent past, and creates shapes that evoke ruins, but look as if the bricks arranged themselves while nobody was looking, and for their own amusement.
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Schedule
from April 02, 2012 to May 05, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-04-05 from 18:00 to 21:00