June 15 – July 29, 2011
Wynne Hayakawa
“I try to make each painting a conversation of colors. Color provides both unity and tension within the painting. I hope to make a vibration of color that resonates within us.” -Wynne Hayakawa
Wynne Hayakawa uses the oaks, bays, and redwoods of coastal California as archetypes for the forest of her imagination. Hayakawa works as mediator between image and paint, first working with the models in her mind, then away from them. In the resulting image Hayakawa finds delight in the light and shadows as well as a feeling of enclosure and intimacy. Hayakawa strives for her paintings to evoke the world outside so that the viewer can exist for a while in the space among the trees.
Ferdinanda Florence
“I celebrate the plain and direct integrity of environments laid bare—an analogue for intellectual honesty and ethical purpose.” -Ferdinanda Florence
Ferdinanda Florence paints the plain, unyielding structures of an uncelebrated industrial space. These buildings are concrete and tangible, but their presence is ambiguous. Overhangs and entryways imply shelter but access is uncertain. They are both familiar and unknown, serving as metaphors of the distance between the inner and the public self.