Join us on the final day of Patricia Williams and Gale Wallar’s solo exhibitions! Learn about their artisitc processes while chatting with fellow art lovers. Plus, see art by Deborah CC LaCroix, Suzanne Yurdin, and Beth Nogay Carenbauer in the current 50 for 50 exhibitions, and an intriguing Late Fall Group Show by Touchstone artists.
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.