Mary Iverson at Museum of Northwest Art
Next week, Museum of Northwest Art unveils Representing Abstraction, an exhibition of five contemporary local painters, including Davidson Galleries artist Mary Iverson.
Mary Iverson. Waterway 2, 2008. Oil and ink on canvas. 48 x 72 inches.
From the press release:
Five Northwest artists combine the abstract and the representational with very different results. Three of the artists’ paintings relate to three-dimensional objects also shown in the exhibition: Mary Iverson and Margie Livingston work from handmade models to create their abstract structures on canvas, while John Keppelman’s early sculptures prefigure his current paintings. Iverson depicts landscapes beset by cargo containers—abstract forms arranged along gridlines that stretch into and along the horizon of otherwise pristine landscapes. Livingston faithfully portrays light, space, and form from direct observation, and draws from the essence of each a pure abstraction. John Keppelman conveys multiple narratives in his figurative paintings, folding space in the same way he conceived and constructed his abstract wall sculptures. The other two artists in the exhibition represent landscapes in the abstract, from distinct vantage points: Philip Govedare paints the earth from above, abstracting the terrain with line, color and perspective, and Kelly Neidig portrays movement through landscape, distilling the view with bold bands of color.
The exhibition opens Saturday, October 10, from 2-5 pm, and continues through January 3, 2010.
For more information, visit MoNA’s upcoming exhibitions page.