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"In the Gallery" by Joan Baum
May 26 – June 26, 2007: “Fresh Art” at Karin Sanders Fine Art, 126 Main Street, Sag Harbor, NY.
Though only in her second season, Karin Sanders is moving her gallery to a more "progressive and hip" edge, show-casing more emerging and established artists with a "fresh, innovative vision who are working in media that are inventive and unique." By edge, she means "cutting edge, NYC style," SoHo or Chelsea, with no distinction made between photos and painting - "it's all about art."
works by Orly Cogan
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Too unsettling? Try Cara Ober, whose mixed media canvases, like Ms. Cogan's, have serious fun with stereotypes about women and women's work. Describing her pieces as 'narratives,' Ms. Ober uses lettering, paste ons, paint, and ink to create pseudo-primitive views that move from symbols of innocence to experience.
summertime skin
In 'I'd Rather See You in Summertime Skin', a dictionary definition of 'pretty' is painted near a stick-figure honeymoon couple. The eye then travels down the canvas, past a blue bird (of happiness?) and a colorful cliche family beach scene, where black cursive writing scrawls out the picture title. Two smaller works, from Ms. Ober's 'Meshuggeneh Series,' joyfully continue the gentle satire.
untitled from the meshuggeneh series
Fresh Art includes works by Orly Cogan, Richard Alvarez, Jill Corson, Cara Ober, Diane Rollins Feissel and Michael Souter.
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