Monday, June 28, 2010

The New Harmony Gallery presents "Liberties of Construction: Form, Content, and Color"

Katherine Taylor Mixus Handi Bi bronze Photo Credit: Photo Provided HI-RES | WEB RELATED VIDEO:  RELATED AUDIO:  Contact for more information: Erika Myers-Bromwell Director of New Harmony Gallery of Comtemporary Art 812/682-3156 email The New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art presents "Liberties of Construction: Form, Content, and Color," an exhibition of artwork by Katherine Taylor and Billy Hertz. The exhibition runs from July 10 to August 15. A reception for the artists will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday, July 10, and is free and open to the public. During the reception the artists will be available to answer questions. Influenced by surrealist Alberto Giacometti and contemporary artists Louise Bourgeois and Magdelana Abakanowicz, Taylor's cute but often grotesque bronze creatures have wings, webbed feet, and enlarged appendages. The creatures in this newest work, though small, are given mass by enlarged ears and backbones. Earlier emaciated figures, more similar to Giacometti's, have transformed into faceless, bodiless creatures as the artist further abstracts the body. Each symbolic of a number, Taylor's bronze creatures were used by the artist as visual signifiers to learn the Basque language, Euskara, while she was living in northern Spain. Hertz's vibrant paintings, on the other hand, locate us primarily in the tomato fields and hill towns of central Italy. Though his work too, is abstracted, it is reminiscent of the physical landscape. In Hertz's long artistic career he has become well known for the painterly lines, drip-marks, brilliant colors and geometric forms that manifest on his large canvases. His paintings such as "Pancale Fields" give us magnificent views of Italy's timeless landscape. Taylor currently works as an artist in College Station, Texas. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Dartmouth College and a Master of Fine Arts degree from University of Melbourne in Australia. Her work has been featured in the Boston Globe, Albany News, and Sculpture Magazine. Hertz is best known for his role as director of Galerie Hertz in Louisville, Kentucky. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Florida Atlantic University and did post-graduate work there and at the University of Louisville. New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art is located at 506 Main Street in New Harmony, Indiana, and is open from 10 a.m. until 5p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and noon until 4 p.m. Sundays. The gallery is closed on Mondays. For more information call 812/682-3156 or visit www.nhgallery.com.

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