Join us at Touchstone Gallery on Saturday, October 24, from 4 -7 pm for the opening reception celebrating new solo exhibitions by artists Gale Wallar and Patricia Williams, plus see a 50 for 50 Spotlight by Kwaku Ofori-Yirenkyi, and the Late Fall Group Show. Enjoy an evening of art, conversation, and community as you explore the work, and connect artists and fellow art lovers. Whether you’re a Touchstone regular or visiting for the first time, we look forward to welcoming you to the gallery!
Patricia Williams: Transformations and Importations
Patricia Williams explores the concept that creative ideas are catching. Thus, a secular love song from 1600, or thereabouts, finds its way via a Christian passion hymn scored by Bach in 1656 and a protest song by Tom Glazer in 1947 to Paul Simon’s Bridge Over Troubled Water in 1970 and American Tune in 1973. Ms. Williams further transforms the music into visual art. Some paintings in this series interpret the notes of the musical score as shape and color, while others express the music's emotional and intellectual content.
The work in this exhibition by Gale Wallar reflects parallelismus, using formal organizational principles (contrast, repetition, emphasis, proportion, and balance) and sensory elements (color, line, value, mass, and space). It emphasizes the symmetrical alignments found in nature that provide order in a chaotic world. The Swiss artist Ferdinand Hodler defined parallelismus as a visual philosophy: a process of simplification, balance and repetition found in nature; the fundamental order of the universe.
Gale Wallar
Patricia Williams