At Lora Schlesinger Gallery through June 4th, “Abstraction” features the immersive abstract works of Miya Ando, Richard Bruland, Sophia Dizon Dillo, Mark Steven Greenfield, and Maxwell Hender. Acrylics, oils, and mixed media comprise a show that pulls you into a world beyond this one, and that invites viewers to plunge visually into the images depicted.
Miya Ando’s “Forest Green Meditation Mandala,” is both primitive and delicate, using dyed bodhi skeleton leaves and microfilament mounted on archival ragboard to create an almost tribal image. Her dye printed “Clouds” are infused with light, reflecting and refracting their aluminum surface.
Sophia Dizon Dillo’s creates ethereally translucent works that play with light and shadow; Richard Bruland, below, uses more opaque techniques.
Richard Bruland says his work is all about putting on texture, sanding it off, and then painting on top of this already layered and nuanced surface.
“I take a trowel and evenly spread out the paint, then I take a flat stick and push it into the acrylic gel, lift it into peaks and valleys, drag one color out. I create entire detailed surfaces first, but I want them to have depth. So then I sand it, then I go over it with a brush and paint.” The artist digs deep, and so does the viewer, absorbing this work.
Also on exhibit: minimalist pieces crafted in resin from Maxwell Hender; delicate patterned pen and ink works from Mark Steven Greenfield.
Abstraction offers a very concrete look at some beautiful, non-figuarative works.
- Genie Davis, All Photos: Jack Burke