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[thepinerider]

The Hockey Fans Guide to the Offseason Desert: Erie Otters Edition

Every hockey team, no matter the league, is always in some state of perpetual flux from season to season. For fans, the offseason seems like the inevitable desert that one must trudge through during the summer months until October finally rolls around and we can jubilantly rejoice in the annual...

Via: http://thehockeywriters.com/the-hockey-fans-guide-to-the-offseason-desert-erie-otters-edition/

[highartfriend]

Jim Waters Untitled, 2013 Acrylic and vinyl on panel Dimensions various Courtesy of the artist © Jim Waters

Splendor: The Work of Jim Waters

February 8-June 8, 2014

  Splendor presents work from the past five years by Atlanta-based artist Jim Waters and features two related aspects of his practice: drawing and installation. Essential to all of Waters' work is light – the perception of colors produced by individual wavelengths of light – movement, and the science of optics. Waters' drawings are created using a vocabulary of materials and forms that he has developed over the course of his career. He employs the reflective properties of materials such as glitter, resin and holographic vinyl to amplify the symbolic potential of graphic form and to draw a personal and emotional response from his audience.  The installation, which comprises forty-five sixteen-point stars, explores the dynamics of perception, beginning with the fundamental understanding of light as motion itself. Even the slightest movement on the part of the viewer triggers a continually shifting field of reflected light on the surfaces of the cut-out panels, which hover a short distance from the surface of the wall. The resulting work transcends science to evoke a consciousness of the environment that feels symbolic, magical or spiritual in effect.

[highartfriend]

Friends of Contemporary Art and Director's Circle Special Event

Medford Johnston: Counterpoise and Splendor: The Work of Jim Waters   VIP opening Reception: Friday, February 7, 6:30PM

Medford Johnston, Samburu, 1988 Acrylic, modeling paste, and pencil on canvas Overall: 60 x 45in. (152.4 x 114.3cm), Framed/Mounted: 63 3/4 x 48 x 2 3/8in. (161.9 x 121.9 x 6cm) Anonymous gift through the 20th Century Art Acquisition Fund 1988.45 © Medford Johnston

Counterpoise presents works by Atlanta-based artist Medford Johnston produced between 1987 and 1990, which are based on a trip he made to Tanzania and Kenya.  Johnston’s paintings convey in an abstract visual vocabulary his impressions of the Samburu, Kikuyu, and Masai cultures and feature variations on a theme inspired by Masai walking staffs, used for balance while herding cattle, and as a protective weapon. The jagged contour of the staff in juxtaposition with the graceful poise of its owner, silhouetted against the horizon of East African plains, inspired Johnston’s years-long study of balance, counterbalance, and dissonance in the interdependent relationship between people and nature.

Jim Waters, Untitled, 2013 Acrylic and vinyl on panel Dimensions various Courtesy of the artist © Jim Waters

Splendor presents new work by Atlanta-based artist Jim Waters featuring a site-specific installation and drawings from the past five years.  Waters uses materials such as glitter, resin, and holographic vinyl in his work to amplify the symbolic potential of form while eliciting an emotional response from viewers. His imagery suggests a symbiotic relationship between the natural and artificial –between geometric shapes and complex organic structures, and those in between. Their seemingly inexhaustible transmutations prompt a reflection on beauty, both aesthetic and spiritual, as conveyed by their simplicity of form, their subtlety of surface, and the resplendent radiance of their materiality.