HEIDI McDOWELL
Recent Oil Paintings
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After featuring her work in this ArtZone's "Introductions" show, Heidi McDowell's first solo appearance opens in the Side Gallery. McDowell's paintings, unlike Gaspari's, are portraits of places - places where and when the sky meets the earth - and their contemporaneous interactions. The sky dominates as the main character. Still, the paintings reveal their origins in masterful digital images.
The raw, un-manipulated, photo-based works, shot with some of the most advanced equipment, depict a heightened sense of realism using an economy of means. The artist confirms this description in saying: "When incorporated into a painting, they [evidence of digital optics effects] further clarify and enhance the experience of specific light conditions, most often intense sunlight, and root the viewer more thoroughly within the space and time of the painting."
SIDE GALLERY
Artist’s Reception
SAT. JULY 24, 2010, 5-8 pm
July 24 - August 22, 2010
RECENT
EXHIBITIONS
Clouds 2, 2009, oil on canvas, 14” x 20”
Drake's Estero, 2009, oil on canvas, 45" x 64”
