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Dale Witherow
Resolution
Michelle Williams
Decipher
July 3 - August 3, 2008
Opening reception Thursday, July 3, 6 - 8pm
Resolution
Dale Witherow is a former art professor and seminar leader based out of the Pennsylvania area. He has exhibited in the Mid-Atlantic region, Texas, New Mexico and Mexico. After retirement, he relocated to the Pacific Northwest and exhibits on the West Coast. In the last several years, his work has undergone extensive transformations situated loosely around the landscape. He has since forayed through a variety of styles, media and subjects and has delved into very personal abstractions. These works display his love for color, design, and hidden symbolism. He has resurrected and restructured elements of his past and the subsequent imagery of memory and used these motifs as a basis of his new work.
“The act of painting keeps me connected to the present. Painting for me is an exploration of the world, self, color, design, memory, emotion, the light and the dark of all things. My painting keeps me in touch with my own life changes, and reveals new questions about how I choose to live my life.”
Dale Witherow
Resolution
Acrylic on Canvas
20x20
Unspoken
Houston artist Michelle Williams works only with a palette knife, creating wonderfully textured mixed media paintings, both on canvas as well as metal. She layers soft colors, incorporating subtle ovoid shapes and scratch marks. These expressionist pieces transfer a sense of lightness and meditation to the viewer.
“Self understanding will reach a higher state without any verbal influence. “ Says Williams. “We all strive for clarity of purpose and a deeper meaning in life’s journey …to define and understand within translates to more profound results. I provide no verbal foundation for interpretation of my work. I conclude that my part is done when I finish a piece…the viewer is then given an opportunity to relate on their own terms…allowing an unspoken, often enigmatic connection.”
Williams worked as the director of an art gallery in Houston for several years and has work displayed in many collections including the Hyatt Regency Resort in Scottsdale, AZ, and Morgan Stanley in Houston, TX.
Michelle Williams
Decipher
Mixed Media on Canvas
34x31
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