Mockingbird Gallery in Bend, Oregon, presents a three-woman show highlighting the works of Colorado artist Sandra Pratt and New Mexico artists Dinah Worman and Liz Wolf. Beyond the Surface will present new oil paintings by Pratt and Worman, as well as bronzes from Wolf.
Dinah Worman, Winter Blues, oil, 30 x 36"
Pratt’s impasto style lends itself to dynamic paintings with thick, textural brushstrokes. “The visual perception of a minute part of the landscape quietly evokes feelings without the need of attachment to shapes and forms,” she says. “It gives me great pleasure to present these new paintings. October is my favorite season of the year, with its vivid colors and unmistakable atmosphere. My paintings tend toward a warmer palette reminiscent of the changing seasons, [and] this collection of new works seeks to show simplicity and evoke feelings of calm restoration.”
Liz Wolf, Standing Watch, bronze, ed. of 15, 49½ x 18 x 16"
Sandra Pratt, Changing Seasons, oil, 8 x 15"
One of Wolf’s sculptures in the show, Standing Watch, is a personified deer inspired by a nature walk through northern Wisconsin. “I often find myself connecting the animal spirit with the human form. In northern Wisconsin, I would encounter a deer, but only for a moment, and in that moment their presence was like magic,” she says. “One sunny fall day, I was walking in a field of high grass and came upon a large patch that was padded down, forming a nest where a deer had slept the night before. The nest was so inviting and everything around me was so perfect—the sun, the grass, the moment, that I laid down in it and took a nap.”
Sandra Pratt, Tree Shadows, oil, 10 x 10"
Wolf continues, “In the deer, I see a very powerful spirit having gentle yet guardian qualities...Inner thoughts and experience evolve into wisdom only known and taught by elders, the ones that stand watch over us.”
Winter Blues, by Worman, has a cool palette, depicting a large blue barn in winter. She says, “interpretation is more important to me than the object itself. You realize that your wisdom is coming from some subconscious place rather than from copying something else. I want to do work that, though rooted in reality, is more and more conceptual.”
Beyond the Surface will be on view for the entire month of October. An artist reception and opening takes place Friday, October 1, from 5 to 8 p.m. —
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