/EINPresswire.com/ Losett’s landscape paintings depict a few square feet of a rock wall or a mossy bank, several boulders, a tree or bush. Her mixed media reliefs feature the mundane urban fragments: manhole covers, slate pavers, concrete, and cigarette butts, reconsidered at close range.
Artist Alex Losett exhibiting paintings from “American Landscape Series” & invites viewers to take a glimpse into a new body of work “Objects, Traces & Shadows” @ Art Walk 2013 May 25-26
The exhibition, sponsored by Paterson Art Council as part of Art Walk 2013, juxtaposes realistic, evocative landscape paintings and painted sculptures featuring manmade objects. The exhibition will be on display in the Art Factory’s vault room, a dramatic setting with tall brick walls framing the side of a mountain.
Take a stroll through Paterson’s Great Falls National Historic Park during Memorial Day weekend and see Alex Losett’s exhibition in a space perfectly suited to it. Four of Losett’s paintings showing rock outcrops will resonate with the sheer rock wall forming one side of the exhibit space. The water and trees featured in the remaining paintings will bring an element of movement and life into the space. The brick texture and weathered wood of the space are from the same paradigm as the artist-painted sculptures, manmade objects and structures affected by nature and its forces.
Alex Losett’s “American Landscape Series”, represented in the exhibition by 12 Minimal Landscapes, reflects her ambition to create a new paradigm in American landscape painting, with iconic images drawing on contemporary sensibility, new technology, and her formidable technical skills.
The work was inspired by nature in the Northeastern United States. Losett took more than 5,000 reference photos of woods, lakes, and streams of the region. The best images were combined and modified digitally, and became references for the paintings.
Through the painting process, the artist reconstructed the experience of being in a space and moment, extracting a painterly image from the photo reference. The paintings are not meant to render specific places, but to refer to human experiences in nature. They hold minimal narrative content, yet evoke profound personal and emotional associations in viewers.
“Art’s impact derives not as much from meanings but rather from the powerful draw of subconscious associations,” Losett said.
The contemplative nature of the images is in contrast with the masterful and assertive execution. The techniques are dictated by the subject: Some canvases are sculpturally built in low relief with textures. Others are almost ephemeral, created largely by thin glazes. Bold and precise application of paint with commercial brushes and rollers is juxtaposed with the fine details created by tiny sable brushes.
“Minimal Landscapes” will evoke profound personal and emotional associations in viewers and invite them to develop a deep and long-lasting relationship with the work.
Losett’s “Objects, Traces and Shadows” series turns the sensibility we find in the artist’s Minimal Landscapes in the direction of the wonders beneath our feet in American cities. The four mixed media reliefs on display were created with cardboard, sand, gesso and everyday objects on panels, and painted over in oil. They feature the mundane fragments of human activity: manhole covers, slate pavers, concrete, and cigarette butts, reconsidered at close range, the type of focus that may leave the viewer with a renewed sense of wonder. This series explores the interactions of culture and nature, human relationships to everyday objects and the beauty found therein.
For more information please visit artist’s website at www.losett.com
The exhibition will take place at Paterson Art Factory, 70 Spruce St, Great Falls, Paterson, NJ
Alex Losett’s series of Minimal Landscapes invites viewers to look again, more closely, at the richness of the world around them. The oil on canvas images depict a few square feet of a rock wall or a mossy bank, several boulders, a single tree or bush in exacting detail, but they also evoke the landscape’s hidden elements: the feelings, emotions and associations these images stir in viewers.
Losett’s “Objects, Traces and Shadows” series of mixed media relief panels is created with cardboard, sand, gesso and everyday objects, and painted over in oil. It turns the sensibility we find in the artist’s Minimal Landscapes in the direction of the wonders beneath our feet in American cities. The reliefs feature the mundane fragments of human activity: manhole covers, slate pavers, concrete, and cigarette butts, reconsidered at close range. This series explores the interactions of culture and nature, human relationships to everyday objects and the beauty found therein.
For more information please visit artist’s website at www.losett.com
Alex Losett
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