Amy Talluto commented on ArtNewYorkCity.com, inviting me to come down to the gallery @ PS122 on Saturday (yesterday) but I did not see the comment till Saturday afternoon – so I could not go.  I went today, instead though I missed Amy – who was not at the gallery today.

I did make a YouTube movie of Out of This World @ PS 122 -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48p-sQh4Za0 for anyone interested.  I would have embedded the video but this version of WordPress seems to have problems with putting videos in blog posts – I don’t have the same problem on www.WebMetricsGuru.com or www.SmartMobs.com.

Here’s the thing – Amy Talluto’s paintings were really good – and I got a surprise – they were much looser close up than I thought, based on the picture (see below).

I think this painting is of a pond – it was the largest in the show and was being sold for 5,000 – which is really worth it ….. I was surprised at Amy’s brushwork – it’s so loose!   The blue touches in the middle of the painting really make the painting “sing”.   There were a couple of other paintings (you can see the whole thing in the online video on YouTube).

I’m glad I made it to Out of This World @ PS122 on the last day of the show.  

BTW, I also looked at Diane Carr’s work but I’m more into painting than sculpture – but her work was good – I just am more biased to painting – what can I say?

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.