Spalding Nix Fine Art | 03/25/22 - 05/13/22 | BETWEEN THOUGHT & EXPRESSION | Group Show | Atlanta

Art Exhibition |<br /> Spalding Nix Fine Art<br /> 425 PEACHTREE HILLS AVENUE, NE SUITE 30-A ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30305https://spaldingnixfineart.com/exhibitions03/25/22-05/13/22Between Thought & Expression opens on Friday, March 25, 6 – 8 p.m. & Saturday, March 26, 12 – 4 p.m.!Our Spring Show, Between Thought & Expression, features new works by Marina Dunbar, Claire Whitehurst, Kate Hooray Osmond & Vera Pawelzik.Each of these artists’ works are meditations on specific ideas made tangible & visible through their paintings. Between ideation & their chosen medium develops a distinct language used to create deliberate, often kaleidoscopic, abstract artwork. Marina’s paintings are examinations of movement, time & transformation, with her process rooted in the physical construction of form as it is propelled by her medium’s inherent fluidity. Claire describes her works as “materialist” works, in that they insist on the relevance or significance of emotion and its inseparability from our existence. Her work plays with the boundaries of emotional reaction through color, line, shape and texture, as well as through the exploration of relationships between image and object.Kate’s series of paintings deal with sensation and ultra-color as she considers the concepts of over-consciousness, Horror vacui and the overlap between joy and terror.Minimalism is Vera’s way of finding peace amidst our routine confusion. She strives to create works that evoke a sense of overall balance and harmony through the use of only geometric shapes, line and color. “Between the ideaAnd the realityBetween the motionAnd the actFalls the Shadow”― T.S. Eliot, The Hollow MenMarina Savashynskaya Dunbar Fluent Form“I often think about painting in three dimensions, rather than two,” says Marina. “When engaging with the surface, I am considering how the arrangement and folds of the canvas will influence the composition.” Her process is as rooted in the physical construction of form as it is propelled by the medium’s inherent fluidity.The title of her exhibition – Fluent Form – refers to the practice of exploring opposing concepts, such as density and fragility, continuity and impermanence, within the same material. As one progression leads to the next, Marina studies the medium without premeditation, remaining sensitive to nuances within her process.Marina has introduced natural elements such as dry pigments and sand into these paintings. Sand is a physical object, yet its existence is a representation of the passage of time. It is the result of rock erosion, and it is a material that continually assembles into new patterns. In the Buddhist tradition, sand is used to convey beauty and ephemerality through the construction and subsequent destruction of mandalas. Using these themes as anchors of inspiration, the works evoke impressions of dunes, flora, and natural phenomena while departing from a faithful rendering of reality.Born in 1992 in Minsk, Belarus, Marina obtained her BFA from Columbus State University, Georgia in 2016. She currently resides in Charleston, South Carolina. Claire WhitehurstClaire’s work is at once startlingly lush and shyly particular, like iridescent fishing wire tangled in long grass along the riverbed or water bugs running along the surface of a marsh. Candy colored cellular forms become pond ripples or tree rings – memory recorded or imagined as the coincidence of the natural world and raw emotion. The forms that populate Claire’s paintings vibrate between growth and decay, are shot through with a distinctly queer sensibility that combines the biological and the sensual. Even in work with more muted tones or staid line forms, these paintings are irradiated with a kind of constant becoming, and open up space for a new kind of sense-making. They’re materialist works, in that they insist on the materiality of emotion and its inseparability from the world; here is a body tangled in candy floss or Christmas lights; here are two fingerprints, or two lovers, being pulled both together and apart. Born in 1991 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Claire Whitehurst is a painter, printmaker and ceramicist based in Jackson, Mississippi. Claire received her BFA from the University of Mississippi in 2015, her Post Baccalaureate from Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the University of Iowa in 2020. In 2018, she was the recipient of the Stanley Fellowship for International Research where she studied polychromatic cave paintings and engravings in southern France. She draws heavily from the landscape and atmosphere of the South, exploring queer narrative, memory, time, and identity through color, form, surface and space. Her work plays with the boundaries of emotional reaction through formal qualities as well as through the examination of relationships between image and object.Kate Hooray OsmondGold“My series of paintings deal with sensation and ultra-color,” Kate explains. “I am considering the concepts of over-consciousness, Horror Vacui and the overlap between joy and terror. In visual art, “horror vacui” (from Latin “fear of empty space”), also kenophobia (from Greek “fear of the empty”), is the filling of the entire surface of a space or an artwork with detail.For this series titled “Gold,” each piece is influenced by a topic of consideration: technology, super-nature, genetics, pharmaceuticals, perception. As Kate studies and meditates on these subjects, her path of investigation grows more and more intense until she teeters between becoming overwhelmed by fear for our future and a euphoria filled with hope and intention. “I feel so much life that I am paralyzed by it, and I am confounded by how sensation and numbness can blend together,” says Kate. “All that glitters is Gold.”Born in 1983, Kate Hooray Osmond earned her MFA in Studio Art from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2019, and her BA from Saint Mary’s College of Maryland in 2005.Vera PawelzikBorn in 1983, Vera Pawelzik is a German artist temporarily living in Atlanta, Georgia. She creates pure geometric abstract works on paper, panel and canvas. The pictorial language of geometric abstraction is based on the use of simple geometric forms placed in non-illusionistic space and combined into nonobjective compositions.Her practice focuses on the continual reduction of forms and the arrangement of new dynamic compositions. Inspired by Constructivism, Concrete Art and Minimalist architecture, Vera strives to create works that evoke a sense of overall balance and harmony through the use of only geometric shapes, line and color. Having traveled back and forth between Germany and the US for the past 12 years, she has learned the importance of minimalism both in her lifestyle and in her artwork. “Minimalism is my way of finding peace amidst our routine confusion,” says Vera.

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425 PEACHTREE HILLS AVENUE, NE SUITE 30-A ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30305https://spaldingnixfineart.com/exhibitions03/25/22-05/13/22Between Thought & Expression opens on Friday, March 25, 6 – 8 p.m. & Saturday, March 26, 12 – 4 p.m.!Our Spring Show, Between Thought & Expression, features new works by Marina Dunbar, Claire Whitehurst, Kate Hooray Osmond & Vera Pawelzik.Each of these artists’ works are meditations on specific ideas made tangible & visible through their paintings. Between ideation & their chosen medium develops a distinct language used to create deliberate, often kaleidoscopic, abstract artwork. Marina’s paintings are examinations of movement, time & transformation, with her process rooted in the physical construction of form as it is propelled by her medium’s inherent fluidity. Claire describes her works as “materialist” works, in that they insist on the relevance or significance of emotion and its inseparability from our existence. Her work plays with the boundaries of emotional reaction through color, line, shape and texture, as well as through the exploration of relationships between image and object.Kate’s series of paintings deal with sensation and ultra-color as she considers the concepts of over-consciousness, Horror vacui and the overlap between joy and terror.Minimalism is Vera’s way of finding peace amidst our routine confusion. She strives to create works that evoke a sense of overall balance and harmony through the use of only geometric shapes, line and color. “Between the ideaAnd the realityBetween the motionAnd the actFalls the Shadow”― T.S. Eliot, The Hollow MenMarina Savashynskaya Dunbar Fluent Form“I often think about painting in three dimensions, rather than two,” says Marina. “When engaging with the surface, I am considering how the arrangement and folds of the canvas will influence the composition.” Her process is as rooted in the physical construction of form as it is propelled by the medium’s inherent fluidity.The title of her exhibition – Fluent Form – refers to the practice of exploring opposing concepts, such as density and fragility, continuity and impermanence, within the same material. As one progression leads to the next, Marina studies the medium without premeditation, remaining sensitive to nuances within her process.Marina has introduced natural elements such as dry pigments and sand into these paintings. Sand is a physical object, yet its existence is a representation of the passage of time. It is the result of rock erosion, and it is a material that continually assembles into new patterns. In the Buddhist tradition, sand is used to convey beauty and ephemerality through the construction and subsequent destruction of mandalas. Using these themes as anchors of inspiration, the works evoke impressions of dunes, flora, and natural phenomena while departing from a faithful rendering of reality.Born in 1992 in Minsk, Belarus, Marina obtained her BFA from Columbus State University, Georgia in 2016. She currently resides in Charleston, South Carolina. Claire WhitehurstClaire’s work is at once startlingly lush and shyly particular, like iridescent fishing wire tangled in long grass along the riverbed or water bugs running along the surface of a marsh. Candy colored cellular forms become pond ripples or tree rings – memory recorded or imagined as the coincidence of the natural world and raw emotion. The forms that populate Claire’s paintings vibrate between growth and decay, are shot through with a distinctly queer sensibility that combines the biological and the sensual. Even in work with more muted tones or staid line forms, these paintings are irradiated with a kind of constant becoming, and open up space for a new kind of sense-making. They’re materialist works, in that they insist on the materiality of emotion and its inseparability from the world; here is a body tangled in candy floss or Christmas lights; here are two fingerprints, or two lovers, being pulled both together and apart. Born in 1991 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Claire Whitehurst is a painter, printmaker and ceramicist based in Jackson, Mississippi. Claire received her BFA from the University of Mississippi in 2015, her Post Baccalaureate from Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the University of Iowa in 2020. In 2018, she was the recipient of the Stanley Fellowship for International Research where she studied polychromatic cave paintings and engravings in southern France. She draws heavily from the landscape and atmosphere of the South, exploring queer narrative, memory, time, and identity through color, form, surface and space. Her work plays with the boundaries of emotional reaction through formal qualities as well as through the examination of relationships between image and object.Kate Hooray OsmondGold“My series of paintings deal with sensation and ultra-color,” Kate explains. “I am considering the concepts of over-consciousness, Horror Vacui and the overlap between joy and terror. In visual art, “horror vacui” (from Latin “fear of empty space”), also kenophobia (from Greek “fear of the empty”), is the filling of the entire surface of a space or an artwork with detail.For this series titled “Gold,” each piece is influenced by a topic of consideration: technology, super-nature, genetics, pharmaceuticals, perception. As Kate studies and meditates on these subjects, her path of investigation grows more and more intense until she teeters between becoming overwhelmed by fear for our future and a euphoria filled with hope and intention. “I feel so much life that I am paralyzed by it, and I am confounded by how sensation and numbness can blend together,” says Kate. “All that glitters is Gold.”Born in 1983, Kate Hooray Osmond earned her MFA in Studio Art from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2019, and her BA from Saint Mary’s College of Maryland in 2005.Vera PawelzikBorn in 1983, Vera Pawelzik is a German artist temporarily living in Atlanta, Georgia. She creates pure geometric abstract works on paper, panel and canvas. The pictorial language of geometric abstraction is based on the use of simple geometric forms placed in non-illusionistic space and combined into nonobjective compositions.Her practice focuses on the continual reduction of forms and the arrangement of new dynamic compositions. Inspired by Constructivism, Concrete Art and Minimalist architecture, Vera strives to create works that evoke a sense of overall balance and harmony through the use of only geometric shapes, line and color. Having traveled back and forth between Germany and the US for the past 12 years, she has learned the importance of minimalism both in her lifestyle and in her artwork. “Minimalism is my way of finding peace amidst our routine confusion,” says Vera.