I did not go to the opening of Out of this World @ PS 122 - http://www.artcal.net/event/view/6/3385  - I was out of town at the EMetrics Summit so I could not have gone, even if I wanted to - but I would have liked to have attended, none the less.

 

I’m going to try to make the show before it closes so I can write more about it - I like a personal connection to the work - but I like what I see so far.

“Amy Talluto uses landscape painting to explore new ways of representing space and form, and psychological content and color, to investigate the impact of nature, and natural space on the mind. She states, “I am interested in exploring the in-between states of painting - between flat shape and deep space, between abstraction and realism, between invented color and observed color, between chaos and harmony. These moments all come together to form a shifting landscape space where emotion and thought can mix with formal invention to create a new and surprising natural and mental world.” The paintings included in this show incorporate scenes that are ” sometimes bright, lush and flowering, or sometimes dissonant, murky and foreboding. Tree branches twist and writhe, color turns acidic, and sky flattens to meet form and then deepens back into space again. A shifting psychological mood pervades the group as a whole, moving between realms of magical fantasy, sparkling beauty, anxiety, and the sinister and mysterious.”

There’s another artist, Diane Carr. 

Here’s the info on Diane Carr:

“Diane Carr received her M.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Her work has been included in numerous exhibitions in New York at such locations as CUE Art Foundation, Gallery Korea, NurtureArt, Plus Ultra Gallery, AG Gallery, the Carriage House at the Islip Art Museum, and the Dumbo Arts Center. She has been the recipient of several grants and awards from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, Artists Space/Independent Project Grant and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Arts Fund Grant. She was born in Pittsburgh, PA, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.”

I’ll try to visit PS 122 this Saturday.