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GALLERY V PRESENTS
N e w P a i n t
i n g s
by
RONALD V. CLAYTON
&
MELINDA KAY ROSENBERG
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Ronald V. Clayton
Melinda Kay Rosenberg
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EXHIBITION
May 23 - July 6, 2002
OPENING RECEPTION
Thursday, May 23
5:30 - 7:30 PM
GALLERY HOURS
Tuesday - Saturday 11:00 - 5:00 PM
and by appointment
RONALD V. CLAYTON’s interior spaces
evoke images of deteriorating industrial buildings, painted in vivid
colors and with varying pictorial surfaces. These geometrical
compositions of color, forms and textures express an affinity to the
modernist picture plane. However, Ronald establishes a counterpoint to
the abstracted interiors by offering the viewer an alternative to these
vaguely threatening spaces: portals opening on to an exterior world of
lush landscapes. Ronald utilizes linear perspective to create lifelike
depictions of the natural world. Thus, he offers dualistic views of
differing histories of painting (representational and influenced by
Renaissance perspectives, and formal modernist concerns with color,
shape, form), as well as dualistic views of our experiences within the
constructed spaces of civilization and the untouched natural world.
MELINDA KAY ROSENBERG’s latest works are primarily in circle
forms, incorporating mixed media such as found objects, clear casting
resin, maps, wood and acrylics. The found objects, often small marbles
or twigs, are inserted in the clear resin, thereby suspending the
objects within the work. Melinda then covers the surface of the work
with maps, which dissolve in the center to reveal the captured objects
beneath. The maps represent our indirect perception of the world,
requiring some abstract thought to understand, whereas the found objects
represent a simpler more direct experience of the physical world. Seen
together, one must shift modes of perception from direct perception to
indirect perception, and consider the differing relationships between
micro and macrocosmic views of the world.
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