Opening Artist Reception July 21, 6-9pm
Show runs through 8/16/2007
Show runs through 8/16/2007
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:
McCorkle’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.
Victoria Skirpa:
Skirpa’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
About the Artists
Marty McCorkle:
McCorkle’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.Victoria Skirpa:
Skirpa’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
Have you ever flown over England? The entire country is a very beautiful patchwork of fields, roads and towns. By contrast, the western US looks very different. Here, there are vast swathes of raw untamed landscape with small pockets of crazy man-made geometry. Visually, it’s a compelling combination especially the hinterlands where man and nature duke it out. 
Lucio Menegons music works exceptionally well with Webb’s artwork, Menegon will be performing live for the opening reception. He is a guitarist, improviser, composer, collaborator and sonic artist. His work encompasses rock 'n' roll, blues, country, punk and experimental music, and will be accompanied opening night by the amazing Suki O'Kane.
