SOAG-> April: Orders of Magnitude

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State of the Art Gallery NEWS <http://soag.org>

April: Orders of Magnitude

April 4-29
Opening reception: Friday, April 6, 5:00-8:00pm

Dear Friends of the Gallery,

Orders of MagnitudeOrders of Magnitude: from the very large to the very 
tiny, and from meticulous realism to wild imaginings: cartographer Jay 
Hart and scientific illustrators Frances Fawcett and Margaret Nelson 
break loose to explore both natural and inner worlds in a three-artist 
show at the State of the Art Gallery.

About his work, Jay Hart states: "After 30 years of mapping, mostly 
providing spatial answers to project-level scientific query, I have 
shifted recently to an artistic pursuit where landform and regional 
pattern are rendered without annotation, as raw as can be, to allow 
viewers their own pace and intensity of exploration. There is much 
beauty to our earth's patterns which are too large for us ever to see 
ourselves."

"My works for this show", Frances Fawcett says,"fall into three 
categories: new carbon dust and charcoal drawings, new acrylic 
paintings, which include fairly realistic, impressionistic, and hard 
edge pieces, and a sampling of older work in several media. I've been 
experimenting extensively over the past year with different media and 
techniques, but the subject matter of the new work remains pretty 
constantly the natural world."

Margy Nelson is a neurobiologist turned scientific illustrator who also 
turns her fascination with form and function into art pieces, on paper 
and as three-dimensional fabric constructions. She adds, "This may 
explain the duality of my artistic interests, away from the 
microscope....my work cycles between the analytical and the anarchic -- 
and I am enjoying the trip. Whenever I can, I recycle my scientific 
pieces into something more "artistic," often using the computer as my 
drawing instrument. At times, though, it is a pleasure to escape the 
constaints imposed by the precise, realistic approach of scientific 
illustration, and to give free rein to my imagination. Watercolor has 
finally given me an 'out'. Watercolor paints are notoriously 
unpredictable in their behavior, and it delights me to let the colors 
play for a while on the paper, and see where the paint and my 
imagination take me."

"Orders of Magnitude" opens April 4 and runs through April 29. An 
reception for the artists will be held Friday, April 6, 5-8pm. State of 
the Art is located at 120 W. State Street, Ithaca. Information: 277-1626 
and www.soag.org

 


          The Gallery is located at 120 W State Street, across from the
          State Theater.
          Hours are Wednesday-Friday noon-6:00 pm,
          Saturday-Sunday noon-5:00 pm

More information about the gallery and this show is at soag.org 
<http://soag.org>.

SOAG <http://soag.org>

 

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