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DOUGLAS WIRLS AND CHRISTINA TENAGLIA
AUGUST 17 - SEPTEMBER 29, 2013
This exhibit features works on paper by Douglas Wirls and constructions by Christina Tenaglia. Both artists work more in suggestive evocations than definitive statements. Mr. Wirls' drawings of meandering gestures in chalk, Sumi ink and charcoal suggest forest floors and windswept fields of grass. They are parts of a landscape more than the whole, zoomed in upon and void of a horizon line. Ms. Tenaglia's wall constructions have a physical heft and a boldness that directly contrasts Mr. Wirls' delicate works on paper but are still tune in with his: they, too, offer only fragments of an image, a moment in time captured. Ms. Tenaglia's small scale objects are built from simple wooden forms with elegantly placed nails and screws. Pieces of each construction are painted so smoothly and so densely that they begin to read as porcelain or stone. Although these two artists use entirely different devices, both Ms. Tenaglia and Mr. Wirls give out just enough information, a piece of patterned fabric torn from a shirt, to evoke a memory, a personal history, and leave us to finish their sentence.
DOUGLAS WIRLS AND CHRISTINA TENAGLIA
AUGUST 17 - SEPTEMBER 29, 2013
This exhibit features works on paper by Douglas Wirls and constructions by Christina Tenaglia. Both artists work more in suggestive evocations than definitive statements. Mr. Wirls' drawings of meandering gestures in chalk, Sumi ink and charcoal suggest forest floors and windswept fields of grass. They are parts of a landscape more than the whole, zoomed in upon and void of a horizon line. Ms. Tenaglia's wall constructions have a physical heft and a boldness that directly contrasts Mr. Wirls' delicate works on paper but are still tune in with his: they, too, offer only fragments of an image, a moment in time captured. Ms. Tenaglia's small scale objects are built from simple wooden forms with elegantly placed nails and screws. Pieces of each construction are painted so smoothly and so densely that they begin to read as porcelain or stone. Although these two artists use entirely different devices, both Ms. Tenaglia and Mr. Wirls give out just enough information, a piece of patterned fabric torn from a shirt, to evoke a memory, a personal history, and leave us to finish their sentence.