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New Works by California Artists -- Robynn Smith

Triton Museum of Art

June 3-July 30, 2006

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For Robynn Smith, life, and art, consists of dualities to explore and portray. Her heavily textured painted panels and layered monotype prints offer contrasting images meant to created detailed comparisons of the wretched and the sublime, life and death, light and dark. A compassionate and symbiotic relationship between a woman and horse might be presented in contrast to the spiritual devastation of war, man's inhumanity towards his own; or the tranquility of the artist's sojourn at Crater Lake might be juxtaposed with the devastation of the Ground Zero crater of 9/11. They are studies in the extremes of human nature, the bucolic and the profane. To create her mixed-media pieces, Smith works from photographs and uses a series of individual images to form her composition. She then draws all the elements with charcoal on paper and redraws them on a mahogany panel sized with glue. After she seals the panel, Smith carves out her image and begins to build up the surface with acrylic gesso and asphalt paste, a water-soluble compound used to graft or seal trees. As she moves through her paintings, she builds up and carves away at the same time, adding other elements and images through transfers and pigments. In this way she can experience the creation of her work on a visceral level, and the adding of paint and materials along with the reductive carving and scraping of the work both echoes the duality of her subjects and blurs the visual lines between the horrific and the sublime.

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  Dates:
  June 3-July 30, 2006

  Times:
  Mon-Wed: 11am-5pm
  Thu: 11am-9pm
  Fri-Sun: 11am-5pm

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  Triton Museum of Art

  1505 Warburton Ave. Santa Clara, CA 95050

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  • Event Name: Ann Weber - Wonderland
    "Enchanting exhibit!"
    Review posted by: Triton Museum Fan from Milpitas, CA USA, Nov 15, 2008
    

    This is a great, fun, enchanting exhibit. It's like walking in a forest of giant mushrooms.

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    This is a great, fun, enchanting exhibit. It's like walking in a forest of giant mushrooms.

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  • Event Name: Neal Boor Paintings
    "painter/ professor"
    Review posted by: shawn mccracken from sunnyvale, CA, Apr 05, 2008
    

    I was impressed by the sheer quantity of work apparently completed in the last year. Many of the canvases looked as if they had been worked and reworked such that I wonder if they are not... Expand

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    I was impressed by the sheer quantity of work apparently completed in the last year. Many of the canvases looked as if they had been worked and reworked such that I wonder if they are not culminations of a process that had been ongoing over multiple years. Not that it matters, the work is confidently wrought. As a body of work the paintings were extremely varied with not much coherence as a whole. The painting closest to the back entrance or side exit (painting situated to the right of exit) was most compelling because of the simplicity of the composition and pallet. It is always a treat to see the work of an art teacher and active artist Collapse

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