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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 r* si IB IpMilfp pi' BawlMBi 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 12 FLAGPOLE.COM MAY 25,2011
