Kamini Avril-Branches

Kamini Avril’s third exhibit Branches at Bowery Gallery shows two different ways of working; one looks outward, absorbing information through plein air observation and the other turns inward, guided by feeling and memory. Both involve responding with paint in the moment without premeditation, approximating nature’s cohesive chaos.

Perceptually, branches are not only their own lines but, in combination with other trees, make of their flat designs wondrous dimensional shapes in space. Likewise, foliage, flowers of a bush, twigs, limbs and trunks of trees, all visual phenomena, form gestures and harmonic patterns.

Avril, a Guggenheim Fellow in Painting, has shown in the US and India. She has taught at New York Studio School and Bard College and is represented by Bowery Gallery, NY and Oxbow Gallery, Easthampton, MA.

The exhibit runs from Oct. 31- Nov. 25, 2023.