Saturday

Burdened Dreams Paintings and sculpture by Marty McCorkle and Victoria Skirpa

Opening Artist Reception July 21, 6-9pm
Show runs through 8/16/2007

Victoria Skirpa

Two self-taught artists, a sculptor Victoria Skirpa and painter Marty McCorkle, display distinctive figurative work that reflects compulsive artistic visions that originate from narrowly self-imposed rules. Often transcending the burden of obsession, the resultant works resonate with misshapened but lyrical depictions of the organic and human form, challenging whether these artists are trapped or liberated by their burdened dreams.

About the Artists

Marty McCorkle:

Marty McCorkleMcCorkle’s work blends oil painting and computer to deliver engaging, sometimes startling figurative images. Using the computer like a blade, McCorkle follows self-imposed rules to digitally cut up bodies into bands and circles of color at the expense of subjects’ outline and volume. McCorkle then paints from these computer screen images onto canvas, amplifying suggestions of movement and of vision’s ephemeral quality. McCorkle’s more dynamic paintings become experiential snapshots while his more contemplative images stand as studies in deconstruction.
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Victoria Skirpa:


JeweleryRabble FishSkirpa’s glass-work confronts and explores the tension in attraction and repulsion; the grotesque is a point of inquiry. Her metalwork tends to evoke futuristic universes. She often seeks a playful relationship with work, evocative of feminine iconography and sexual innuendo. However, a continual thread remains: the relationship of forms to living bodies - animal, human, and insect. On display will be glass, metal and mixed media sculpture and jewelery.

Skirpa’s self imposed rules are evident in the dance between opposites, never resting on any side, in constant opposition of each other. Opposites and opposition fuels the energy of her work, dynamic tension, and continual movement, sometimes exhausting and often exhilarating.

“Collapsing a piece into only one possibility , seems never enough, as if cheating the work, of a life it could have had” – Victoria Serpa
http://www.victoriaskirpa.com


Metal & Glass Sculpture

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