Deceit by Mirage, new work by Tara Costello & Ingrid Restemayer
Opening reception with the artists: Saturday, September 6th, 7-10pm
Show runs: September 3rd – September 28th, 2008
Rosalux Gallery is located at 1011 Washington Ave. South, Minneapolis, MN
Regular hours: Wednesday-Thursday, noon-8pm, Friday-Sunday, noon-5pm
In Deceit by Mirage Tara Costello’s plays in atmosphere and emotion contrast with Ingrid Restemayer’s patterned premeditation. Yet the show is balanced and complimentary in that both these artists’ recent works deal with the implication of space through shape.
The latest from abstract painter, Tara Costello concentrates on exploring the contrast between control and providence. Texture and reactions between the materials she uses are as important as the resulting image. Her more atmospheric paintings reflect emotional experiences rather than specific places or times. Whereas her more controlled pieces express the raw physicality of mark-making. Yet both were inspired by the beauty of the unexpected.
Printmaker and fiber artist, Ingrid Restemayer continues her habit of mixing mediums but now with a new, greater emphasis on collage – layering dark, hand-dyed papers. A new dimension appears in her work where delicate printed images appear to float between and out from under mottled, inked papers. The papers themselves appear velvety in their blackness. The compositions are, quite literally, tied together with thread. Repetitive hand-stitching adds to the meditative quality of this work.
Pieces in this show work toward the abstraction of shape. At times the essence of a land or waterscape appears, exploring the suspension of time and the beautiful instability that it holds. Atmospheres created solely of color are paired with pieces where dark blacks resonate against bright whites, punctuated by harsh color or gentle printed images.
Costello’s style of painting with trowels and the spontaneous compulsiveness therein presents the fragility of current state. While Restemayer’s collaged layering of paper and image seems meditative but displays a finality marked by her hand-stitched thread codices.
Rosalux Gallery is funded and managed by its 24 artist members. Consumers buy direct from the artist who creates the work. Rosalux is a vibrant and growing community of Twin Cities artists working together to help build not only each others' careers, but also the Twin Cities' art community.
For more information please contact Ingrid Restemayer at 612-396-3947 or dirgni@earthlink.net.
For general information or to request an exhibition schedule, visit http://www.rosaluxgallery.com/ or at 1011 Washington Ave. South, Minneapolis, MN.
Opening reception with the artists: Saturday, September 6th, 7-10pm
Show runs: September 3rd – September 28th, 2008
Rosalux Gallery is located at 1011 Washington Ave. South, Minneapolis, MN
Regular hours: Wednesday-Thursday, noon-8pm, Friday-Sunday, noon-5pm
In Deceit by Mirage Tara Costello’s plays in atmosphere and emotion contrast with Ingrid Restemayer’s patterned premeditation. Yet the show is balanced and complimentary in that both these artists’ recent works deal with the implication of space through shape.
The latest from abstract painter, Tara Costello concentrates on exploring the contrast between control and providence. Texture and reactions between the materials she uses are as important as the resulting image. Her more atmospheric paintings reflect emotional experiences rather than specific places or times. Whereas her more controlled pieces express the raw physicality of mark-making. Yet both were inspired by the beauty of the unexpected.
Printmaker and fiber artist, Ingrid Restemayer continues her habit of mixing mediums but now with a new, greater emphasis on collage – layering dark, hand-dyed papers. A new dimension appears in her work where delicate printed images appear to float between and out from under mottled, inked papers. The papers themselves appear velvety in their blackness. The compositions are, quite literally, tied together with thread. Repetitive hand-stitching adds to the meditative quality of this work.
Pieces in this show work toward the abstraction of shape. At times the essence of a land or waterscape appears, exploring the suspension of time and the beautiful instability that it holds. Atmospheres created solely of color are paired with pieces where dark blacks resonate against bright whites, punctuated by harsh color or gentle printed images.
Costello’s style of painting with trowels and the spontaneous compulsiveness therein presents the fragility of current state. While Restemayer’s collaged layering of paper and image seems meditative but displays a finality marked by her hand-stitched thread codices.
Rosalux Gallery is funded and managed by its 24 artist members. Consumers buy direct from the artist who creates the work. Rosalux is a vibrant and growing community of Twin Cities artists working together to help build not only each others' careers, but also the Twin Cities' art community.
For more information please contact Ingrid Restemayer at 612-396-3947 or dirgni@earthlink.net.
For general information or to request an exhibition schedule, visit http://www.rosaluxgallery.com/ or at 1011 Washington Ave. South, Minneapolis, MN.
