Beyond Boundaries: Exploring Abstract Realms
September 25 – October 13, 2024
OPENING RECEPTION: WEDNESDAY, September 25, 2024 – 6 – 8 pm
Join us IN-PERSON at the Leslie Grove Gallery.
See the show, meet the artists, bring a friend!
ABOUT BEYOND BOUNDARIES
The early part of the 20th century was a time of monumental growth and change in the world.
Modernization, an intellectual, scientific and cultural revolution, including interest in the unconscious, provoked artists into experimentation and new terrain. Abstraction shook Western art to its core. It confronted audiences with vivid visual poetry devoid of representational imagery. Expression was characterized by shocking juxtapositions of color, light, and line.
These artists abandoned convention and played with new materials: commercial paints, housepainter’s brushes, unstretched canvas, working on the floor, using hands, sticks and experimental tools. Think Kandinsky, Klee, Rothko, Frankenthaler, Pollock, and Rauschenberg (to name just a few).
Moving forward to now, the realm of Abstraction has only deepened with process driven artists exploring new concepts, materials, tools, sites, and collaborations.
We invited abstract artists to showcase the magic of nonrepresentational work; art with NO discernible visual reference to our day to day worlds.
Featured Artists:
Alice Plummer, Amy K. Fitzgerald, Anne-Marie Olczak, Carolyn Laidley Arn, Cherie Daly, David Adshade, David Cairns, Deborah Hansen, Dixie Allen, Douglas Robinson, Edna Ruiz, Gillian McConnell, Jill Hobson, Karin Shaddick, Lisa Herrera, Lisa Knie, Maren Boedeker, Maryse Lemieux, Matthew Catalano, Mike Efford, Nedda Zaharelos, Pamela Paulenko, Richard Levine, Robert Kamnatnik, Robin L Potter, Rosana Khabbaz, Shaan Taseer, Steve Potter, Susan Weisz, Sylvia Jacobs, Theodora Opris, Xiao Wen Xu.