SOAG-> November -- New Members' Show

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

New Members' Show
*Wednesday, November 5 through Sunday, November 30, 2008*
*Opening reception: Friday, November 7, 5:00-8:00 pm *
(The gallery will be closed Thanksgiving day, November 27.)

Paintings of urban life, trees, explorations of color and texture, and 
collages of gods and goddesses that personify the planets will fill the 
front gallery during November at the State of the Art Gallery. The work 
is by four new gallery members -- painters Leslie Brill, Erica Pollock 
and Ethel Vrana, and collagist Andrea King. The four artists will be 
present at a reception for their exhibition Friday, November 7 from 5:00 
until 8:00 pm at the gallery.

*Leslie Brill *offers the viewer an intimate experience with trees, 
color, and paint. Her paintings range from the symbolic to a kind of 
unique arboreal portraiture. Her emphasis favors the trees -- not in a 
detailed, botanical sense, but in the organic handling of oil paint and 
what is either included or excluded in her compositions.

**

*Andrea King* is exhibiting a series of the Nine Planets in our Solar 
System, ignoring, she says, Pluto's recent demotion. These pieces are in 
the medium of paper collage and are personifications of the planets 
imagined as the gods and goddesses after which they are named.

**

The paintings of *Erica Pollock's* current series present a cropped 
viewpoint of the urban world. "By cropping the scene," she says," I am 
honing the viewer into a piece of the scene often overlooked or ignored. 
In this series, the recurring imagery seen over and over again is 
people, shadows and streets."

*Ethel Vrana* calls her new works abstract expressions. "They 
represent," she says, "an exploration into ways in which my interest in 
the processes and cycles of nature can be abstracted and expressed 
through texture, color and form as well as new ways of applying paint."

This exhibition opens Wednesday, November 5, and runs through Sunday, 
November 30. In addition, other members of the State of the Art Gallery 
will exhibit paintings, prints, photographs, sculpture, and assemblage 
in the Members' Gallery.

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

SOAG <http://soag.org>


          The Gallery is located at 120 W State Street, across from the
          State Theater.
          Phone:  607-277-1626
          Hours are Wednesday-Friday, noon-6:00 pm,
          Saturday-Sunday, noon-5:00 pm



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