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37 Main Street, Narrowsburg, NY
Tuesday - Saturday, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
(845) 252-7576
Magaly Perez
Paintings
April 25 - May 17, 2008
"Slip Sliding" • 2007 • 30 x 34 • Oil on canvas
An exhibition of paintings by Magaly Perez opens at the Alliance Gallery in Narrowsburg on Friday, April 25, with an artist’s reception from 7– 9 p.m. The exhibit will be on view through May 17.
When painter Magaly Perez moved from Havana, Cuba to the United States at the age of nine, she was struck by the differences in culture from her home. “The most important change in my life in coming to this country was the discovery of art,” Perez recalls. “When I made art, I was lost in the moment. My self-consciousness and pain became conduits to self-expression.”
Perez earned her BFA at the Philadelphia College of Art and her MFA at Washington University in St. Louis, before moving to New York and exhibiting her paintings at galleries including The Work Space and Rush Arts Gallery. In the city, she also began working as a garden designer.
Perez’s abstract oil paintings, influenced by her gardening work, are structured, yet free floating by design. Like a well-planned garden, her paintings become overgrown with organic shapes and artistic strokes. “Gardens offer a means to order nature and integrate an area to the larger landscape,” she explains. And, like her paintings, gardens “often begin with schematic plans that define a space, whether spiritual or physical.”
Like her life-defining move at age nine, her more recent move from New York to Fremont Center, NY, has revealed an exciting new world, that of wild nature. Some of her new work utilizes grids and contrasting color fields, while others begin with textures that are overlaid with objects abstracted from nature. The artist explains, “What began with observations of natural phenomena, such as light at dusk in the garden or a swarm of bees around a hive, has grown into a more abstract investigation.”
This exhibit, free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, the Arts Council for Sullivan County, NY, and is made possible in part with funding from the Visual Arts Program of the New York State Council on the Arts.
Alliance Gallery is located at the Delaware Arts Center at 37 Main Street, Narrowsburg, NY. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information about the exhibit call 845-252-7576.
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The Delaware Arts Center has two exhibition spaces where the public can view and purchase the work of contemporary ertists: Alliance Gallery and LOFT Gallery. Each exhibit has an opening reception where the artist and the arts lover can connect.
Gallery Director is Michael "Rocky" Pinciotti
Email: Rocky@artsalliancesit.org
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