March 2 - April 11, 2025
Alice Outzen - A never ending story | Wendy Roberts - Exploring the Human Condition | Peter Helinski - Lost and Found | Joe Vinson - Sottovoce
OPENING RECEPTION - SUNDAY, MARCH 2, 1-4pm
WAITING ROOM
Alice Outzen - A never ending story
“What I strive for as a painter, is to be so exact and present in my expression, that a potential space for reflections arises, between the active viewer and the work.
For me, this process requires contemplation, active surrender and is a kind of sensory thinking, that testifies the agreement of hand and mind, desire and will, body and intellect. All the while, though, the eyes do the approving.
I believe there is a close and deeply interesting connection between formal visual language and content, hence, painting, doing art, is a demanding labor of perception.”
“I am preoccupied by existential considerations and work with issues of relativity, transformation, reflection, paradoxes/opposites, simultaneity, and ambiguity. Naturally, this takes place in a synthesis with the Now, we all spare, and are shaped by, each with our own baggage of gender, culture and history.”
“From my point of view, there appears to be equality, coherence and reciprocity between subjectivity and objectivity, and between mind and matter. This is an ethical and moral matter between a person and the world, a phenomenological concern that has been treated by K. E. Løgstrup, M.Merleau-Ponty, W. Ørskov and others. It’s an intersection of compelling reflections that I find highly engaging.”
Alice Outzen is a Danish painter living in Copenhagen, educated in 1994 from The Royal Danish Akademi, Aarhus.
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Wendy Roberts - Exploring the Human Condition
Through the medium of weaving, the Exploring the Human Condition Series interprets the expression of human emotions through color and form. Representations of passion, grief, fear, love, tranquility, alienation and optimism are conveyed.
With a background in graphic design, Wendy Roberts, focuses her fiber art on the relationship of pattern and color. She has a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art and maintains a fiber studio in Harford County, Maryland. Wendy has served on the board of the Textile Society of America as the Director of Communications. Most recently, Wendy was a featured artist in the 2024 Joshua Tree National Park Art Juried Exhibition.
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Peter Helinski - Lost and Found
I have been exploring the enormous and deeply personal themes of life, death, forgiveness and redemption through my work for my most of my life. As a child, I enjoyed trips to the town dump with my dad, always tempted to sneak home someone else’s tossed junk, to become a salvaged treasure of my own. As an artist, the use of found materials in my work, whether discarded, forgotten, lost or just passed by, allows me to focus on those themes as I redefine what can be valuable and important.
With my sculpture, I think about the past while also imagining another future. I begin my practice by scavenging for sticks, an organic and precise process. These perfectly imperfect sticks become the heart of this work. They are cut and painted and, along with wire and twine, are assembled into minimal, abstract figures. The spool of wire I use, I found discarded years ago on a Manhattan street. The twine has been either found or purchased from True Value. The act of finding materials is integral to my work and becomes almost a performance itself.
My drawings feature a certain everyman of sorts facing today’s challenging world. Similar to my sculptures, I use found materials in my drawings as well. The explosion of Amazon deliveries have provided many of my canvases – cardboard, on which I use china marker.
Peter Helinski (1957, Greenport, NY) is an American sculptor, painter and curator. He has been making art his entire life, often with found materials: as a child, papier-mâché from old newspaper, later, found-paper collage and assemblage, a found-object blog, discarded tin and plastic sculptures and cardboard prints. Currently, he’s creating found-wood sculptures and drawings on discarded cardboard. His work has been included in exhibitions at Buffalo AKG Art Museum, peopleart/bflo, New York University and Parrish Art Museum. He lives and works in Pine Plains, NY.
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Joe Vinson - Sottovoce
Joe Vinson (Post grad certificate School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,Ma and BA Ringling School of Art, Sarasota, Fl), divides his life between New York City and Tuscany where he has taught landscape painting with his artist wife Maddine Insalaco since 1995. He has also taught at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Cooper-Union, NY, and the Art Students League of New York.
Joe and Maddine are experts in the history of early open-air painting in Italy and have lectured, published and curated museum exhibitions on the subject in various forums including the Palm Springs Art Museum, Museo del Agro Falisco, Forte Sangallo, Civita Castellana, the Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, GA. They have worked with major museums (Morgan Library, New York; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Musee des Beaux Arts, Orleans) to identify works in their collections. Most recently they completed a project for the Comune of Civita Castellana involving the creation of a map of historic painting motifs in the local territory.
Joe has exhibited both his abstract and representational work extensively in the USA and Italy.
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