GOLDFINGER, GOLDSTROM, LILLY & SKOLLAR AT RICE POLAK
The Rice Polak Gallery is excited to announce our third feature exhibition of the 2022 season – exhibiting the work of Jennifer Goldfinger, Robert Goldstrom, Anne Lilly & Steven Skollar.
The show previews tomorrow on Thursday August 4th and runs through Wednesday August 17th. The Opening Reception is this Friday August 5th beginning at 7pm.
As a friend of the gallery, we’d like to offer you an exclusive online preview of their work by visiting the gallery’s website.
Jennifer Goldfinger – “Nature vs. Nurture”
Jennifer Goldfinger is a fine artist as well as a children’s book author and illustrator. Her fine art and illustrations often inform and play off of each other. Jennifer works with wax, oil stick and photographs as well as other ingredients to juxtapose present and contemporary worlds with times and forms of the past. By using organic images and figures with contrast scratching, transfers and other building blocks, she encloses or energizes the figures and illustrates narrative elements such as frustration, solitary peace or active play. In the solitary figures Jennifer imagines the inner thoughts of the characters and pulls the story out with playful collage.
Robert Goldstrom – “Planter Series”
Robert Goldstrom is an artist living and working in upstate New York. In his current body of work, Goldstrom reflects that, “historically, artists have painted the workers of Provincetown – the whalers and the fishermen. I’m updating that tradition by depicting today’s workers, including a man planting a half-barrel.” Click here to see a short video that Robert created!
Anne Lilly – “steady states”
Anne Lilly’s newest works incorporate many of the same strategies that were found in her stunning kinetic sculptures: grid, geometry, repetition, precision, and finely-resolved detail that rewards close looking. Similar intentions are pursued as well: fusing together opposing qualities of hardness and softness; a melding of the rational with the intuitive. Softly, incrementally carving into the whiteness of a virgin field, her paintings strive for a feeling of space and a sense of time’s passage.
Steven Skollar – “Reconsidered”
Steven Skollar is a painter and artist, who has steadily built an international reputation depicting the cast-off toys of the 20th century and marvelous portraits. After being diagnosed with cancer a year ago, Steven Skollar is exploring working with less toxic materials. Now working with acrylic paint after 35 years with oil he is staying with my old tried and true themes of classic and vintage toys.
Featured image: “passage network” by Anne Lilly
