Visions of Space and Form and Solo Exhibitions by Al Pounders and Loren Olson

Visions of Space and Form is a group exhibition featuring artists Ilaria Rosselli Del Turco Lais, Tessa Coleman, James Chaffee, Agnieszka Nienartowicz, Avery Palmer, Manuel Neri, Bruce McGaw, Frank Damiano, James Weeks, Paul Wonner, Theo Brown, and Kim Froshin. The gallery will also be featuring solo exhibitions by Al Pounders and Loren Olson.

The painters in this exhibition all paint figures, landscapes and still lives. In fact, they create their own environment. The puzzling thing with all the painters is there is an object lightly out of place or twisted and yet, there is a great balance that they share. There are surprises in most of the paintings that are hidden, as well as a myriad of conventional and unconventional imagery.

Al Pounders is an American artist born in 1931. He exhibited pop and realistic paintings in the ’50s and ’60s at the Allen Stone Gallery in New York and was integral in the pop realism movement. He is a master of landscape, and can seamlessly move you from one frame to the next. His ability to bring the viewer into the painting, as if they were there with him when he painted it, is unparalleled.

Loren Olson’s new work features use of NASA images in combination with her own. The work leaves the viewer with an ethereal feeling. Olson uses technology to showcase her work by creating and displaying them on digital screens, relating back to how NASA obtained the images she works with. Olson’s work reminds the viewer that they are indeed a small piece of something larger. They are about energy as a neutral aspect of life. She has explored this concept through drawing, digital mediums, painting, installations, collaborations, and by using light in her images.