Lolette Guthrie is a landscape painter who works mostly from memory. “Nature is the external substance in my work; nuance of color that evokes an emotion is the interior substance. While I sometimes work in pastels, I am primarily an oil painter. Regardless of the medium, however, resonant color is the core of my process. I love to juxtapose luminous passages of saturated color with more muted tones combining layers of opaque color with transparent glazes. I find that by varying the thickness of the paint and applying many layers of glaze I can achieve a sense of luminosity and hopefully an awareness of the light in the air, something I am eternally trying to capture.”
“At times my work is pared down representation; at times it is abstract. Regardless of the genre, each piece begins with a loose idea that evolves gradually and intuitively. At some point I always lose myself in the process. Then the painting takes on a life of its own and I become aware that the canvas that is telling me what to do.”
World-acclaimed textile artist Alice Levinson says, “In the studio I try to remember the old wisdom ‘Don’t ponder how the magic works.’ In my current work, the magic happens in the dye studio. Starting with white cloth, I’ve experimented with color blending, and a variety of application processes, from pouring to painting to screen printing. For some works, whole lengths of cloth have been retained, while in others the cloth is cut or torn and collaged. My palette ranges from the subtle tones of nature’s habitats to jewel tones of stained glass intensity. The work is elaborated and embellished as generous stitching, by both hand and machine, lays down layer upon layer of tone, color, and texture. I hope you will visit the gallery and my new work.”
Pringle Teetor’s work in this show is inspired by the colorful madras fabrics of summer in her home town of New Orleans. “My color combinations and patterns bring those memories alive for me! The majority of my pieces for this show will be cane work, a centuries-old Venetian technique of putting stripes of color and patterns into blown glass. I love to use many different colors in a single piece because of the look as well as the challenge. Glass colors can heat differently from each other which can make combining so many colors quite difficult. With glass cane, I am able to explore endless combinations of color patterns in clean lines. The cane used in these pieces are made either with a color core encased in clear glass, or veil cane, which is color on the outside with a clear core. I made my veil cane with a variety of transparent or translucent colors. In some of the pieces I mixed both types of cane while in others I used strictly one or the other. I especially like the veil cane pieces because as you look through the piece, the density of the color changes and can cause different variations of color, especially in my Spectrum series. In other vessels I used very contrasting color to resemble plaids with varying lines of color. I am hoping to add some of the glow in the dark necklaces from glass I made myself, and a few other colorful pieces using murrini as well.”
SPEAKING IN COLOR