current exhibition
Phyllis Bryce Ely • Richard Jenks • Don Sottile
Starting January 23rd
On Saturday, January 23rd, Oxford Gallery will commence an exhibit of three area artists: painters Phyllis Bryce Ely and Richard Jenks and sculptor Don Sottile.
Phyllis Bryce Ely
The paintings of Phyllis Bryce Ely hearken back to the Modernist compositions of Arthur Dove and Milton Avery. In her landscapes, space and distance are the result of color harmonies and complex planar relationships rather than the usual perspective devices. The power of her work is its reduction of the landscape to its most elemental natural forms.
Richard Jenks
Richard Jenks is equally at home in depicting objects, landscapes, or figures, and his most complex compositions combine the several genre. Jenks' work is highly symbolic, but his symbols are never obvious nor their meaning imposed from without. Rather, the elements of his compositions assume symbolic content in relation to each other and to the entire dramatic context of the painting.
Don Sottile
The work of Don Sottile, finally, is familiar to upstate patrons of art, who have probably encountered some of his many public commissions. The artist has built his career upon an intense exploration of the human anatomy, whether in cast or sculpted form. In depicting subtle alignments in posture or nuances of muscular tension, Sottile is able to communicate age, temperament, and the less tangible aspects of the human condition. |
