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Exhibition Reveal Opens at the New Art Center in Newton Friday September...

the Main Gallery. The opening reception is Friday, September 15 from 6 's8211; 8 pm.

September 5, 2006 -- Reveal brings together five artists whose mixed media works build and uncover layers of material and meaning in both physical and symbolic ways. Artists include Erica Daborn (MA), Samantha Fields (MA), Kathy A. Halamka (MA), C.J. Lori (MA) and Judith Stone (VT.) The exhibition is curated by Kathy A. Halamka.



Erica Daborn creates mysterious narrative drawings made over carefully selected photographic book pages. Daborn covers the found images in paint and then scratches away to reveal selected parts of the underlying photos. Ink and graphite drawings are further layered to create rich and densely detailed surfaces. Samantha Fields transforms familiar materials that reference 's8216;home's8217; into large scale mixed media installations. Fields reveals objects and spaces connected with domesticity as uncanny, uneasy and extraordinary.



Kathy A. Halamka's8217;s mixed media works employ real and imaginary pictures of her descendants, revealed through layers of photocopy transfers and charcoal on birch plywood. The composed surfaces unveil the nature of impermanence and probe aspects of Halamka's8217;s personal history.



C.J. Lori's8217;s paintings reveal hidden physical realms and the related psychological spaces they imply. Underground areas are made visible, and alternate realities coexist. In her paintings, Lori juxtaposes images of strength and beauty with those of vulnerability and decay faced by all living things. Her images celebrate splendor while acknowledging its inevitable ruin.



Straddling borders between two and three-dimensional media, Judith Stone's8217;s work integrates graphite and conte drawing, photographic images and metallic found objects contrived to reveal the Tokyo cityscape as she experienced it during a year spent in Japan in the mid 1980's8217;s. Photographic imagery perceived through tinted Plexiglas panes or embedded in Plexi boxes locates examples of surging urban expansion in a Tokyo of startling commercial energy. The work by artists in Reveal entice us with lyricism, humor and tactile allure, inviting viewers to search for the hidden stories within.



Featured in the New Art Center's8217;s Holzwasser Gallery during the same dates: Moments, paintings by Sydell Alta Masterman. In each painting on canvas, Masterman places a small single figure on a broad field of color. She uses large spaces to establish relationships to each solitary figure, achieving a particular mood or feeling in each of her subjects. Masterman is a student at the New Art Center in Newton.    




The New Art Center in Newton

Gallery Hours: M-F, 9-5pm; Sunday, 1's8211;5pm Closed Saturdays; Closed October 8 's8211; 9 & November 23-24. The Main Gallery is wheelchair accessible.

Address: 61 Washington Park in Newtonville, Massachusetts

Website: newartcenter.org

Information: Please contact Ceci Mendez at (617) 964-3424

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