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For
Immediate Release
September 2010
EVELYN TWITCHELL
Drawn from Nature
Recent Paintings, Drawings and Reliefs
September 7 – October
2, 2010
Reception:
Saturday, September 11, 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Bowery Gallery is pleased to present
Drawn from Nature, an exhibition of paintings, drawings and reliefs
by Evelyn Twitchell. In this new body of work, veering between
abstraction and representation, Twitchell arrives at a poetic distillation
of the organic forms around her. The imagery, based on nests, trees,
birds, seeds and water, explores themes of birth, struggle, transition,
germination and decay. These works are not created in the landscape
but, rather, are ruminations from the studio — images that
evoke the forces and rhythms of the natural world.
As Brice Brown describes Twitchell’s
artworks in the show’s
catalogue essay, “Animal, vegetable and mineral are all drawn
from nature, essences tapped at the source –– that
'tangible and sensational world' just outside our window –– and
distilled into metaphors oscillating between diminutive and grand
(the simple tumbling motion of a climbing weed simultaneously champions
the dignity of a reviled garden nuisance and the irrepressible
human will).”
Twitchell’s work has been favorably reviewed
in The New York Sun, The New Republic and Whitewall magazine.
Writing in The New Republic, Jed Perl noted that in Twitchell’s
paintings “the
brushstrokes that reveal leaf, flower, fruit, vegetable, table,
and easel are also simultaneously dissolving these forms into line,
pigment, and pattern [and that] there is a gently twinkling quality,
at moments reminiscent of Jacques Villon’s paintings.” And
of her paintings included in the 2009 group show “Inside
Abstraction,” at Brooklyn’s Janet Kurnatowski Gallery,
curator Vered Lieb wrote “Evelyn Twitchell visibly struggles
with nature as if her hand were literally interpreting signals
from the very movement of things that grow in the earth. These ‘seismic’ works
are simultaneously strong and delicate.”
Drawn
from Nature is the artist’s
fourth New York solo show and her first one-person exhibition
at Bowery Gallery. Twitchell’s
work has been included in group shows around the country, including
the contemporary art fairs Pulse Miami and Pulse
New York. Her
work has been featured in The Sienese Shredder and used
as cover art for the literary journal TriQuarterly and
for Cortège,
a book of poems by Carl Phillips. A selection of her works on paper
may be viewed online at Lohin Geduld Gallery’s Drawing Atlas.
Evelyn Twitchell lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Milton, PA.
For further information, please contact the gallery at 646-230-6655.
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