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Art Exhibit: Connolly Ringrose
When:
April 13, 2012 to May 25, 2012
Location:
621N4TH Gallery
621 North 4th Street
Wilmington, NC 28401
Website: http://www.621n4th.com/
Admission:
FREE!
Description:
Connolly Ringrose, on display at 621N4TH Gallery in Wilmington, NC, is a new body of work by Michelle Connolly, encouraged by Colleen Ringrose. In it, the artists has explored a different medium: encaustic. To her, encaustic paint is just another tool in her ever expanding bag of tricks, just another way to express the potential she sees in the discarded material she salvages. For Connolly paintings come fast and furious. Through play and “digging” she creates layers, textures and personalities from old metal scraps and found treasures. The raw materials often speak to her and lead the way to genuine and courageous bodies of work. The paintings and assemblages’ achieve exciting balances between the figurative and pure abstractions. Just enough information is given, but not so much as to kill the spontaneity and personality of the figures. Watermarks and wallpaper from the 1930’s have influenced Ringrose’s new body of work. Like Connolly she is a “digger” finding her images in old and discarded books. The inspiration for these new paintings comes from an unlikely source, a book for stamp collectors from 1936. Originally thinking it would be the stamps that would inspire her new work, it was the pictures of the watermarks in the paper used to authenticate the stamps from around the world that caught her eye. The watermark is a thin place in the paper and can only be seen by turning the stamp over and washing it with Benzene. Only then will these small designs appear. In Ringrose’s new paintings she presents them as modern icons set off by the explosions of color. This work is part ancient wax painting and part computer technology. These paintings juxtapose the fluid colorful textures created by the encaustic wax and the more formal graphic quality of the watermarks. Blowing up the watermarks allows for
a closer look at what is invisible in daily life.
More Info:
Contact: Michelle Connolly
Phone: (910) 232-0823
Email: marsconnolly@gmail.com
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