TAG Gallery’s newest exhibit opens on July 16, and will feature artists Christo Brock, Alison Lowe Platt and Anne Ramis. The gallery, located in Bergamot Station, will host an opening reception from 5 to 8 p.m. on Saturday, July 20, and an artist talk from 3 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, August 3.
Using his camera as a means of communication, Brock’s compositions emerge from detailed observations of often ordinary objects. “I embrace color as a gateway to feeling and intuitive perception,” Brock says. After capturing images, he digitally processes his photographs before printing them on metallic surfaces, further enhancing the intense color and luminosity within his work to physically reflect light. “Often through the processing of these images, images freed from their original, earthbound origins, new pictures are born,” Brock says. Numerous compositions focus on the intersection of man and nature, and how the two environments both collide and interact with the other. Whether through a building’s reflection or the rough texture of a painted tree root, Brock’s images consistently remind the viewer of the insightful interplay between these two worlds.
In her current exhibition, Lowe Platt focuses on the psychology of color and its emotive properties. Working in the spirit of the post-impressionists, Platt’s high contrast palette brings forth vivid abstractions of natural forms. “When I’m working directly from life, I not only paint what I see, but hope to describe the essence and feeling of that life force,” Platt says. Stepping away from conventional Plein-Air painting techniques, Platt’s organic brushwork brings forth boldly illuminated forests and seascapes that balance high chroma intensity with muted tones to create atmospheric landscapes. Dramatic exaggerations of jagged rocks and shadowed forest floors are further enhanced by Platt’s evocative use of highlights to communicate her own adoration of the natural environment.
Diverging from her previous body of work exploring digital painting techniques, Ramis’s current exhibition experiments with a broad spectrum of media. Painting, sculpture, mixed media and assemblage comprise her current show, which pays homage to the ongoing rhino-poaching crisis in Africa. Even while working with a specific subject, Ramis takes a spontaneous approach to her artwork. “I actually don’t have an end image in mind. I trust that I can get to a point where I’m satisfied,” Ramis says. In the spirit of her current work, Ramis will dedicate 80 percent of her show’s proceeds to supporting Save the Rhino International.
Contact: taggallery.net.
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