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LAUFEY VILHJALMSDOTTIR BUSTANY, SEASCAPES
GRETL BAUER, NEW WORKS
FEBRUARY 27 - MARCH 23, 2013
RECEPTION: FEBRUARY 28, 6:00-8:00 PM
LAUFEY VILHJALMSDOTTIR BUSTANY
SEASCAPES
Paintings
February 27 - March 23, 2013
On the Waterfront - oil on canvas - 76"x 52"
Rhyme and rhythm continues to be my muse but this time in SEASCAPES I explore the waters of the
Mediterranean to the North Atlantic. The new paintings in this exhibit take off from the series "What
makes a color sing?" using the colors to tell a story. Here they are restrained in diamonds or triangles
with windows open onto an illusionary space. The show also includes SEASCAPES from Greenland and
Iceland and a new painting, "Floating Memories" inspired by a poem by Adonis.
Please join us Thursday, February 28th from 6:00-8:00 PM to meet Ms. Bustany.
GRETL BAUER, NEW WORKS
FEBRUARY 27 - MARCH 23, 2013
VIESTE, 2012, Found Pipe/Stone/Thread, 57" x 24" x 17"
I spend much of my time fastening thread to wood and metal and stone. I weave it through paper and
canvas. I watch as the work materializes beneath my fingers, frequently surprised by the way it wanders free
of the original plan and leads itself into unexpected terrain. As the threads accumulate and grow dense, the
boundaries between drawing and painting and sculpture often blur in an elusive way. The works become
simple, fragile fragments emblematic of a certain place or memory or landscape. Gradually I have come to
realize that my essential search is for a means to capture light, to pin down the very fact of light's incessant shift
and flux, though it is as uncapturable as our own random and fleeting passage through time.
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