Grazing the Surface - works by Christine Greene, Gail Hormats, and Jacqueline Ross

Grazing the Surface

Works by Christine Greene, Gail Hormats and Jacqueline Ross

July 2010 – December 2010

at the GArtH Gallery of Art at the Hadley

657 Main Street, Worcester, MA

Grazing the Surface: Artist Reception: Friday, August 27, 2010

6:00 pm – 8:00 pm at the GArtH Gallery of Art at the Hadley, 657 Main Street, Worcester. This reception is free and open to the public.

Grazing the Surface will be the third exhibition held at the new GArtH Gallery of Art at the Hadley Building, 657 Main Street, Worcester. This exhibition is presented by ARTSWorcester and will feature contemporary paintings by Christine Greene, Gail Hormats, and Jacqueline Ross. These three artists, all women who have been painting for more than 25 years, feature the use of texture within their work to allude to themes of nature.

Christine Greene depicts pastoral farm life using oil stick, suggestive of her environmental surroundings. “The act of taking color to canvas or taking trowel to soil…seems a very hopeful and artful way of living and loving the land,” Greene says of her process.

Gail Hormats’ expressive mark making, using brushes and palette knives, creates lively surfaces that are tangible and thick. “My paintings are abstract renderings of the intersections of light against the seductive patterns in nature,” says Hormats.

Jacqueline Ross’ monotypes and watercolors use texture and color combined to create both abstract and figurative works that evoke worlds of mythology, creation, and ancient civilizations.

The GArtH Gallery is located in the historic Hadley Building. and is open during regular Aurora Gallery hours.