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HOT SPOTS
It's that time of year: the mass exodus of
thousands of students at the end of the
semester leaves our streets a little quieter.
While you are visiting restaurants, coffee
shops and other places of interest, be sure to
check out the artwork on display by local art
ists that graces the walls of so many of your
favorite spots around town.
Organic Compositions: The Grit is known not
only for its famous Golden Bowl but also as a
good place to catch new work by local artists.
On view through May, dozens of new drawings
by Tatiana Veneruso are currently on dis
play. (One was chosen as last week's Flagpole
cover.) Her work is akin to the directed doo
dling of Surrealist automatic-drawing practice
in which letting the mind wander reveals
images that spring from the subconscious. The
found were cups and containers of all shapes,
sizes and styles sitting on just about every
flat surface. This abundance of cups brings
together the work of 15 artists, each present
ing his/her interpretation of a specific form
in a particular medium. The creation of these
pieces has the crucible-like effect of distilling
the individual artist's style down to something
you can hold in your hand while elevating an
everyday object into something special.
The group of artists, which includes Isabel
Daniel, Maria Dondero, Carter Gillies,
Juana Gnecco, Jennifer Graff, Nancy Green,
Aliya Macdonald, Paul Maloney, Geoff
Pickett, Lea Purvis, Rob Sutherland, Anne
Thompson, Crisha Yantis, Minsoo Yuh and
Lauren Zeichner, often have work on display
at the Good Dirt gallery on North Thomas
Street if you miss this exhibition. Also on
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Tatiana Veneruso’s drawings are on display at The Grit through May.
format of these mixed-media drawings is small
and intimate; for Veneruso this size helps to
"preserve the spontaneity" of the process, as
she adds to photographs and magazine adver
tisements chosen for their color and texture.
She says, "The thing I enjoyed about com
bining the photos/ads and the autonomy, was
the interesting juxtapositions. Some made
sense, some don't really... it's all part of the
fun." And these are fun, with some of the
image titles referencing songs—from Prince to
Fugazi—indicating that music is part of the
process. Emphasizing her organic composition
technique and the way in which titles are cho
sen, Veneruso says that music is an inspira
tion: "Often it's a song, or an adjective, or the
one thing that visually jumps out at me the
most in the piece." Colorful with strong, black
contour lines, these drawings have a Fauvist
quality that is powerful despite their being
only pint-sized.
Three Decades: The Lyndon House is currently
celebrating the 30th-anniversary exhibition
of The Studio Group, a collection of local
artists with a high level of skill and craftsman
ship. The media represented are fiber arts,
fused glass, metalwork, painting and draw
ing, pottery and woodturning. Artists include
Margaret Agner (see the main Calendar
image), Barbara Allen, Chatham Murray and
Brent Swanson, but other equally skilled
craftspeople also help to comprise this eclec
tic grouping. On display until July 30.
Freshly Brewed: I walked into Espresso Royal
Caffe looking for the exhibition of coffee
mugs, half expecting to find a simple shelf
display as demure as a china cabinet. What I
display at ERC are paintings by Lea Purvis.
Some abstract, some representing blue-eyed *
brunette ladies with bunnies, the paintings
are worked over with ink and other pigments
(even what appear to be coffee stains). The
images blend a delicate beauty and sweetness
with intense strength and mystery.
Welcome Back, Kregel: Dedicated to a love of
images both moving and still, another great
place to find art is at Cine. Currently on view
are brightly colored gouache paintings by Lou
Kregel, an artist known for creating retro-
style graphics in mid-century modern patterns.
Returned from California and back in her old
studio in Athens, Kregel presents large-scale
works in "Drawing on the Floor and Other
Hardships." Though her geometric, clean lines
are unlike Jackson Pollock, another artist who
"drew on the floor," the all-over patterning
approach to painting is similar. Kregel will
be hard at work this summer preparing for
another exhibition at Big City Bread Cafe this
August. For now, get a dose of color at Cine
through June 13 and check Bulletin Board for
more art-spotting opportunities.
Work It!: Don't forget ATHICA's closing week
end plans for its exhibition, "The Way Things
Work." On Friday, May 27 is a video art pre
sentation curated by Lauren Fancher and Didi
Dunphy from 8:30-9:30 p.m., and on Sunday,
May 29 there is a panel discussion with
"TWTW" curators and artists Dan Grayber, Will
Pergl and Andy Moon Wilson, plus a picnic
on the front porch sponsored by White Tiger
Gourmet and Trumps, all from 4-6 p.m.
Caroline Barratt arts@flagpole.com
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