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A Little Abstracted

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April 6 - May 13, 2017
Twiggs Gallery
​Boscawen, NH

Featuring small(ish) abstract paintings, collages, and monotypes by:
Marcia Santore (curator)
Lotus Lien
Ethel Hills
​Kate Higley

CURATOR'S STATEMENT
A Little Abstracted
​Marcia Santore
​

A Little Abstracted is an exhibition of small, abstract paintings and mixed-media work by four New Hampshire artists. While we frequently think of abstract art as large, I appreciated the opportunity to work with smaller pieces that provide a more intimate experience for the viewer.
 
Each artist in the exhibition approaches abstraction in a unique and personal way. One point we all have in common is a deep and abiding appreciation of color—color as an expressive, powerful, life-giving force. Another is the sense of exploration, of finding our way to something new with each new piece.
 
Ethel Hills finds inspiration in the landscape, responding to patterns, movement, and simple, intimate compositions found in nature, and transforming them into small, boldly colorful pieces. She says, “The small scale mixed media paintings that I now create reflect my passion for color, my semi-abstract take on the world, and my use of landscape imagery. These elements contribute to my goal of producing paintings that remind the viewer of their own connections, their own memories, their own special places.”
 
Kate Higley is also inspired by nature—by the microscopic life that lies beneath the surface—as the basis of her deeply colorful exploration of organic shapes in her etchings and monotypes. She notes, “The play of ambiguity that exists between what can be seen at a microscopic level and what can be seen flying over a landscape has been an ongoing interest for several years.”
 
Lotus Lien begins with play, experimentation, and formal design elements to bring her paintings to life in the eternal present, allowing the pieces themselves to guide their own creation. Of this series, Lotus says, “I am exploring the expression of joy and irreverence, through spontaneous and controlled layers of marks, lines and blocks of color to create a relevant response to my current reality.”
 
In my own work, from the “Composite Rhythms” series, I am exploring color and noncontinuous pattern. In music, the term “composite rhythm” refers to the durations and patterns produced by amalgamating all the sounding parts of a specific musical texture. In this series of paintings on paper, I am bringing together shapes and patterns that first arose in my more figurative, semi-realistic work. I became intrigued by the ability of pattern—rather than serving as merely as a decorative, surface element of repeated shapes—to create shape, to convey movement, and to communicate emotion. This series reflects that exploration.
 
It has been a joy to consider the works of all these talented artists in the light of each other’s work, to find the points of similarity and the points of contrast, and bring them together in conversation with each other.
 


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      • Hotsy Totsy
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      • Saccade
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      • Tempest
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      • Always Watching
      • Bypass
      • Flutter
      • Higher Still and Higher
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      • Journey
      • Lost the Thread
      • Make Tracks
      • Shards
      • Too Late
      • Wind in Her Sails
      • Strong Nuclear Force
      • Near Miss
      • Rosy-Fingered Dawn
      • Inside, Mothers Are Dancing
      • Lupa
      • Snappers
      • Phoenices
      • See You
      • Influence
      • Kimono
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      • Dance of Apprehension
      • Dance of Benevolence
      • Dance of Compassion
      • Dance of Courage
      • Dance of Curiosity
      • Dance of Delight
      • Dance of Delirium
      • Dance of Discernment
      • Dance of Discretion
      • Dance of Disquiet
      • Dance of Euphoria
      • Dance of Gratitude
      • Dance of Impatience
      • Dance of Incredulity
      • Dance of Indecision
      • Dance of Patience
      • Dance of Rejuvenation
      • Dance of Tranquility
    • Inexteriors >
      • Distant Visions
      • Shines on Other Doors and Windows
      • Escape Routes
      • Beyond the Fence
      • Parking Garage: Boston
      • There Are Many Other Legends
      • Barn Window
      • Something There
      • Blue Window
      • Choose Your Path
      • Other Lives
      • Just Beyond
      • All Possible Door
      • Two Point Nine Miles
      • Upon Reflection
      • Domestic Interior
      • Exit
      • Pool
      • Possibilities
      • That Other Road
      • Roof/Tree
      • Water Table
    • Ichthyoforms >
      • Axem Horizontalem
      • Blue Fish
      • Bouquet
      • Camouflage
      • Caught
      • Circle
      • Confusion Effect
      • Converge
      • Exiliens
      • Gathering
      • In the Curve
      • Overtake
      • Pigment Patterns
      • Scissors/Fish
      • Sea Grass
      • Spinous Dorsal
      • Sub Aqua
      • Tangle
      • The Whole World
      • Thicket
      • Thrash
      • Triplifish
      • Vestibulum
      • Vortex
    • Composite Rhythms: Works on Paper >
      • Chromophores
      • Another Path
      • Crosshatch (Magenta)
      • Growth Tolerance
      • Hausos 1-4
      • Crosshatch Blues
      • Chromopleths
      • This and That
      • Interlock
      • Bravery Series
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      • Hashtag (pink) 1 and 2
      • Turquoise Morning
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