friday, apr 13
Stellers Gallery at Ponte Vedra Beach’s Spring Show features artists Jennifer JL Jones and John Schuyler.
Employing multiple layers of abstraction and combined mediums, including a refined glazing technique, Jones creates rich, organic patinas that evoke universal emotional and physical connecting points for the observer. Layers of paint create a palimpsest quality to the work, while the elegant, ever-shifting paintings combine a poetic, sensual grace with consistently bold execution. Jones resides in Beaufort, SC.
John Schuyler, a resident of Boca Raton, works in a process of layering, pouring, scraping off, and scratching into the surface of the canvas while leaving traces of earlier information, plus a buildup and overlap of successive stages which ask that the viewer’s attention continually adjusts in order to consider the various perceptual possibilities within the subject. The paintings reveal themselves slowly, while exploring each successive layer underneath to examine the relationship between space and depth, presence and absence.
Reception: April 13, 6 – 9 p.m. Continues through May. Stellers Gallery at Ponte Vedra Beach, 240 A1A North, Suite 13, 273-6065.