ART EXHIBIT

My next stop on Sunday was an art exhibition in one of the galleries at the university library. The featured artist was Shelley Newman Stevens. Here is a description of her art from the university website:

"Newman Stevens creates large scale, dramatic figurative compositions that position her detailed and life-like figures amidst dreamlike scenes, in a visual representation of the psychological battle that rages between who we really are, and how we wish to be perceived. In this series, Stevens focuses on the mask as a metaphor for the physical and behavioral facade that we construct in attempt to reveal and, or conceal only certain aspects of ourselves. These paintings contain elements of the theatrical and the artificial even as they attempt to expose a truth. "

The paintings were absolutely fascinating. The longer I looked at each painting the more meaning I read into it. I was really sorry I had missed the artist's gallery talk. Take a look at some of the paintings:
http://www.goldenapplestudio.com/series%20two.htm

TO BE CONTINUED