February 19th, 2009 - 7-11pm - "Art Lines: Linear Abstractions in Graphic Design, Painting and Animation" - Group Exhibition Opening Reception

Exhibition duration: February 17 – March 5, 2009
Curator: Natalie Trainor

Live music: Communipaw
7:00 - 8:00 pm - Free admission
8:00 - 11:00 - $7 at the door

From the curator:

Our upcoming exhibition, Art Lines: Linear Abstractions in Graphic Design, Painting & Animation, examines how artists use line as a dominant element in composing abstract imagery. On display will be the works of the following artists: Christina Entcheva, Koenraad Seghers, Jill Caporlingua and David Sananman.

Employing abstraction suggests the artists' mediated experiences of the world that exists around them. Using a system of simplification, the artists present us with works that explore ideas and stylistic techniques that expand beyond the literal visual world the human mind encounters day-to-day.

Ms. Entcheva focuses mainly on figural illustrations. Christina's style, which can be characterized as provocative, exotic and strange, affords the viewer with a glimpse into a world of otherness—an unknown reality that exists within the artist's mind.

Koenraad Seghers' paintings produce an eclectic style of bright colors and myriad forms. Mr. Seghers' art boasts a chaotic, puzzle-like quality in which his use of abstract colors, lines and curves create humorous scenes that reflect his child-like reality.

Jill Caprorlingua's works explore the subject of science and the human body by painting dots of two or more colors upon the canvas to create a solid space. The artist abstracts images of microscopic cells, diseases and DNA strands by painting in a style that spatially organizes the microscopic images in a linear arrangement; thus presenting scientific images to the viewer in a decorative composition that recalls the style of Pointillism in the discourse of art history.

David Sananman's animation presents the elements of shape, line, color, sound and time in a 3-dimensional visual format. In Mr. Sananman's animation, abstract images float through a liminal non-static arena, representing an immaterial space betwixt and between the metaphysical and the supernatural. David's style and use of line in his paintings, silk screen prints and etchings mirrors the stylistic execution in his animation.

The harmonious blend of different media within the exhibition focuses on distinct ways of employing linear execution in art. The works of these artists visually communicate with one another, using abstraction as a form of artistic exchange.

Featured artists:

* Christina Entcheva - Entcheva's graphic design is mainly in the corporate, non-profit, and music industries. She focuses on a clean, linear style with an organic touch. She believes that graphic design is about uniting harmony and balance - color, scale, tension - everything working together in a subtle way. Her illustrations are an exploration of the opposite, capturing something slightly uncomfortable, yet still subtle enough to ... (click to learn more about Christina Entcheva)

* Jill Caporlingua - Jill Caporlingua has worked in various mediums, including acrylics, oils, and ink. She spent five years teaching drawing and painting at the Academy of Art located in Highland Park, New Jersey. She now gives private lessons ... (click to learn more about Jill Caporlingua)

* David Sananman - David's work is a mediation between the spiritual and the metaphysical. Reality is not as concrete as we all would like to think, this is one of the issues he deals with in his art. The art he creates is part of a visual vocabulary, a constantly evolving personal language. He hopes that the realization and bringing to life of his work that is non-mimetic and breaks from the illusion of representation and literal convention ... (click to learn more about David Sananman)

* Koenraad Seghers (Koerie) - Koenraad believes that an artist should look at the world with the eyes of a child and transform reality into a world of his own. His is a world of bright colours, filled with comic figures, mostly humanized animals: a bird that flies a plane, a fox that reads the papers, an elephant who answers his cell phone ... (click to learn more about Koenraad Seghers)

Communipaw

CommunipawCommunipaw formed in July 2007 and released its first EP, a collection of seven songs ranging from atmospheric indie rock to alternative country entitled "Moving Till the Morning" in April 2008. The band is currently at work on a full-length follow-up.
Band Members:

* Brian Bond: vocals, guitars
* Brian Kelly: guitars, vocals
* David Esterman: basses
* Keith Carne: drumset, keys
* PJ Bond: vocals, guitars (oldschool)