$500 or Less art exhibition
Beginning tomorrow, Vastu presents four of its current artists and two new artists for its first ever “$500 or Less” exhibition offering photography, wall sculpture, painting and mixed-media. We are excited to offer original artwork at affordable prices. The show includes works from Kristina Bilonick, DeMarquis Johnson, Colin Winterbottom, Rose Minetti, Gabriel J. Shuldiner, and Allen Russ. Here’s a sneak peek and some of the work that will be featured…
Artist Statement: Lynda Ray
Mapping, encaustic, 12×16″
This painting started by applying a layer of color that creates a chevron pattern on the surface. I then overlay this with a linear pattern. A new structure with it’s own contrasting rhythm appears to float just above the picture plane, mediating the pattern embedded below.
Artist statement: Lynda Ray
Here is what artist Lynda Ray had to say about her piece, Redback, show above…
Beautiful decay of buildings I pass on the way to my studio inspire my work. My commute takes me through an old industrial part of town. Funny, how on one hand looking architectural and on the other hand like some rectangular shaped animal.
Artist statement: Brian Petro
Vastu is currently presenting work by Brian Petro that was made within the last five months. This body of work stems from the lessons learned from Sammy Hodis, his 14 year observance of public and private art collections, carpentry skills from his father, and utilizing one of his favorite pastimes – dumpster diving in New York City. Read more
New art exhibit: Allen Levy and Brian Petro
Allen Levy creates paintings that draw you in to take a closer look. At first glance, they appear calm, peaceful and harmonious but upon closer review, hidden under each layer he applies, is a detailed and complex story. There is intense interplay between organic flow and structured ideas and the limitless possibilities that lie between. The compositions often conjure up a memory of the landscape – a sunset, the weather or even a season, but all are subject to individual interpretation.
Artist Statement: Gabriel Shuldiner
Bigger, harder, better, faster, stronger, more production, more consumption and even more waste: extreme information overload and material excess… Technology promotes this rush, the idea that everyone needs to be constantly in a rush. In a world fast becoming more virtual and transient with each hour, minute and second, I believe in the ever-more importance of the physical. The ‘object’ as a marker of time: a reminder of ourselves, of our own physicality, temporality and transitory nature of existence. While we learn to connect and re-connect in new and different [electronic] ways, hopefully we can remember to slow down a bit, as well…
- Gabriel J. Shuldiner
Artist Statement: Colin Winterbottom
This time last year the National Archives was preparing to mark the 75th Anniversary of its John Russell Pope-designed Washington headquarters on Pennsylvania Avenue. To get the structure suited for celebration, scaffolding was quickly erected so crews could clean and re-point columns and the remarkable sculpture in it’s pediments.
Artist Statement: Campbell Maloney
Campbell Maloney is currently showing here at Vastu. Here is a statement regarding his work. It will be on display now through October 4th. Be sure to stop by and see for yourself!
Campbell Maloney’s play on words speaks to the eye…
Artist Statement: Maryanne Pollock
Maryanne Pollock is currently showing here at Vastu. Here is a statement regarding her work. It will be on display now through October 4th.
Expressive layering of sand, sumi ink and paint evoke ephemeral micro and macrocosmic worlds in Maryanne Pollock’s latest show at Vastu. Intricate brain wave patterns, aerial views of deserts and cityscapes are alluded to and ultimately imbued with a luminous palette. Plein air studies of Cairo, Istanbul, Paris, Washington, Utah and Rehoboth Beach inform her paintings. These boldly abstract inner-landscapes are simultaneously energetic and serene with pure transcendent color.
A graduate of Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and school in Rome, Italy, Pollock also studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and has done graduate work at American University. Her recent exhibition titled, “Human Grid” was in Paris, France. She has exhibited widely with shows in Basel, Switzerland, Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt and in the USA. Her work was included in the State Department’s Arts in Embassies Program. This is her second show with Vastu.
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