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Artana Gallery355 Boylston Street, Boston, MA, 02116Viewing Hours: Monday-Saturday, 10-5 or by appointmentDirector Heather Roy 617-879-3111
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“Poetry of Space”
suggests art that evokes an aesthetic and emotive response while transcending the narrower limits of the traditional framed
image. The nine artists exhibiting in “Poetry of Space” move beyond their rigorous and broadly classical apprenticeship
in creating work that shows both freshness and evolution. We have attempted
to provide significant breadth and contrast in the pictures exhibited. Michelle Doll’s
figures reflect sensual warmth and communicate the beauty of life in unexpectedly pensive scenes while in Jason Talley’s portraits one can sense both the erotic and the emotional. By way of contrast Karl Koett demonstrates
an ability to capture nineteenth-century solidity and earthiness, elements far removed from the whimsicality of Caitlin Hurd’s
animals in flight. In a further contrast, James Adelman’s methodically detailed portraits
are Presque vu on canvass, leaving the viewer on the brink of recognition, wishing desperately to have the darkened
scene thrown into light. Maya Brodsky’s paintings
play on the mind’s struggle to define time, while Dina Brodsky’s work reconciles the simultaneous presence of
textures, tones, and colors of the past in a distinctly contemporary form. Tun Myaing has captured his models in motion at
a point in time, but the streaks running from the canvas edge intimate that motion and time continue. Finally, Ke Feng’s
works are made from an algorithm of the artist’s creation, translating the late 16th
century Chinese text of Journey to the West into ethereal landscapes. The pleasure of poetry
lies in ever-changing voices and themes operating within flexible boundaries; the reward of this exhibition is, we hope, different
creative energies working both within and beyond standard space, engaging the viewer as poetry engages the listener. The effect of “Poetry of Space” is the visitor’s moment of discovery as the exhibited
works show him how his mind unconsciously understands time, space, and memory together as a single faculty.
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