FEATURE AREA & WINDOW DISPLAY
The Feature Area is new to the Guardino Gallery. Situated in the front area where the frame shop used to be, the new Feature Area will host "Mini-shows" on a changing monthly basis. We will also be scheduling the Window as a showing area and a place for installations. June 28-July 24 |  | SHOWING THE FEATURE GALLERY: Jennifer Mercede’s abstract paintings consist of free flowing text, bright color fields, organic shapes and crazy energetic doodling. She is inspired by color, children’s art, old school hip-hop flavor, graffiti, abstract expressionism and inner spirituality. Abstract compositions form intuitively as a result of this relationship, often integrating a free flow of text and an increasing use of recognizable objects. With deliberate subconscious, they reflect how she perceives the surrounding world. Her painting process consists of gooey, dripping house paint, rapid scribbling markers, soft, sensitive lines kissed by colored pencil, and pens gauging into wood. To quote Mercede, “It’s not like I look around, figure out what’s missing and make that. It’s more like just what happens. It’s what comes out of me, like an outpouring of consciousness.”
| | | |  | Chris Wilcox’s work can be identified as kiln-formed glass. He will be showing platters as well as gentle curved shapes that can be rested on wood platforms, or as Wilcox calls them, cradles. His motivation for his designs, as he explains, is “trying to suggest an organic presence to my artwork that parallels the organic matter and process that is glass.” Wilcox’s enjoys the ongoing process of discovering new techniques, experimenting and producing compelling objects with this medium. The challenge is using a medium with such rigid, yet delicate characteristics. “Working with glass has been an ongoing exploratory process of technique and design.” | | | |  | SHOWING IN THE WINDOW GALLERY: Emilio Berwick’s clay work is predominantly coil built allowing him to create the shapes that he wants. His theme for this body of work concerns food and the growing of food. To quote Emilio, “I enjoy cooking and good food, and so am concerned with the industrialization of our food sources that has been taking place for decades now. In the interest of mechanical harvesting the texture and flavor of crops such as raspberries and tomatoes have changed in my lifetime. Raspberries are now dry and tasteless, the tomatoes can be used to play handball. Add to that the genetic alteration of food crops and the new move to use food for fuel production and the threat to our food supply increases. My clay work attempts to bring these concerns to the attention of my audience.” |
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