"The 'Scapes Have Landed"
"Scapes" features Sheila Barbone and Kevin Kusiolek, two artists who bring a vibrant contemporary slice of life snapshots alive with a sense of homeostatic place - quiet, bustling, intimate and vast.
"This is not your grandmother's 'scape. Rather, it’s the modern vision of the world we inhabit," Curator Steve Bowersock says. "This collection takes a broad look at 'out of doors’ where you might find a quiet, contemplative rural landscape, a seascape, or an urban view hustle of a city beat one imagines silenced by a penthouse window. Others present vibrant tourist town scenes, capturing a particular memory in time.
"Sheila's Provincetown scenes are always quite popular. They articulate the incredible color of the town's spirit, rhythms and essence, the pendulum swinging between the meanderer and reveler," says Bowersock. "There’s such evident, contagious joy in her work as she captures its people in place, energetic and alive.”
Barbone has developed a representational abstracted technique of her own. From image to completion, each piece begins as a drawing with paint, wash, palette, and brush applied until a bold, painterly, modern scene emerges.
Kusiolek is known for his atmospheric urban, and waterway scenes: lights reflecting off pavements, splashing on nearby buildings, or reflected in waters where city meets sea. “His work is very stylized, with a unique perspective as he balances abstract with realism, even bringing the urban scene to the seascape," Bowersock says. “Whether a bird's eye or sweeping view, he conveys the human stage and reflects the pulse of its inhabitants."
“‘Scapes Have Landed” will offer a very expansive collection of all things 'scape, all about place. Additional fantasy and surreal scapes by the Bowersock stable of artists will also be included
Bowersock Gallery - Sheila Barbon, Ptown Evening Adventure, 20 x 20