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Dot - Dash: Christine Vaillancourt and Sarah Walker The Creiger-Dane Gallery will be showing the abstract paintings of Christine Vaillancourt and Sarah Walker from September 1 to 25. We will have a reception for the artists on Friday September 17 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. The Gallety hours are 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday,or by appointment. Christine Vaillancourt has been using archetypal forms in her paintings for a number of years. Striking a balance between the ancient and the modern, the geometric shapes in her most recent work is reminiscent of patterns found in African textiles and architectural fragments; as well as punched holes on computer cards, machine parts, or futuristic hieroglyphics. Squares, rectangles and circles float within a multi-layered imperfect grid format. The hard-edged, solid forms are suspended in thick, viscous, translucent layers of paint in which they alternate to varying degrees between being submerged and rising directly to the surface. The shapes move forward and backward through space, as well as seemingly past the confines of the painting's edges. A tension is created between the industrial, man-made forms, and the organic, painterly treatment of the layers of paint in which they reside. Visually juxtaposing chaos and order, primitive and industrial, analytical and visceral, Christine's work is a study of time and transition. Sarah Walker's work reflects the childhood experience of dealing with a relative that developed severe obsessive-compulsive hoarding disorder. The need to save and store everything resulted in ever-increasing heaps of stuff that served as a physical manifestation of memory. Painting permits Walker to generate a similar state of obsessive-compulsive strategies for the hoarding of visual information to create landscapes of recollection. In each painting, the artist explores various options for dealing with maximum information. By stacking, layering, scrubbing, patterning and repeating visual bits of information, Walker's work creates an intensity dense synthetic space that serves as a metaphor for the hoarding neurosis and contemporary culture's tendency to generate and save mountains of stuff. Loading the canvas with thin layers of paint and medium, Walker creates jewel-like works that simultaneously embody a sense of the synthetic and computer-generated; as well as organic feeling for the infinite space existing in the inner mind and the outer cosmos. If you are interested in any of these works, feel free to email geeta@creiger-dane.com. The navigation buttons on the upper right will take you to the top (this page), previous, and next page in this show. You may click on our logo at any time to return to our home page. We hope you enjoy your visit, and invite you to sign our Guest Book. |
 
Syn-Ko Christine Vaillancourt Strata Christine Vaillancourt Kon-Flux Christine Vaillancourt Rythmos Christine Vaillancourt Andante Christine Vaillancourt Linke Christine Vaillancourt Red Squares Christine Vaillancourt A Cumulus Christine Vaillancourt 
Synthescape ISarah Walker Synthescape II Sarah Walker Synthescape III Sarah Walker Synthescape IV Sarah Walker Fixed Points Sarah Walker Minutia I Sarah Walker Minutia I Sarah Walker Minutia II Sarah Walker Minutia III Sarah Walker Minutia IV Sarah Walker Minutia V Sarah Walker Lost Objects Sarah Walker Dot - Dash Price List |