Form Meets Function
Our inhibitions about the nude figure stem from tired religious dogma that never fully explains what the problem is. What’s wrong with lustful thoughts? Sex feels great, releases tension, promotes loving relationships and it’s free! Sounds like a good thing to me. So even if this show were all about sex, I’d be for it.
But the aesthetic beauty of the figures transcends sex. I have long been an admirer of Jonté’s elegant paintings, which emphasize the languorous lines of her models. She uses color minimally and her lines are strong and captivating. In contrast, Rick Tolley emphasizes color and textural detail. He’s much more of a landscape painter than Jonté, and that sensibility shows up in his work. Steven Vander Meer has taken his art into an interesting medium — he makes fine art rubber stamps. In this show, he’s not working with the stamps, but the cartoon-like, heavily outlined style of a stamp is present in his renderings. All in all, it will be a varied perspective on the ubiquitous nude.
The show will be up at Good Relations in Old Town (223 2nd St., Eureka) through the month of October, with an opening reception during Arts! Alive from 6-9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 6. The artists are: Nancy Ensign, Paul Fabian, Joyce Jonté, Jim McGee, Megan Sandstrom, Rick Tolley and Steven Vander Meer.
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