Past Bodzin Art Gallery Exhibits 2011-2012

2011-2012

The Nature of Art
September 6–November 1

These artists have as their inspiration the beauty and vitality of nature. Each finds their vision and means of expression rooted in organic forms or materials.

Marilyn Morris Berliner draws her audience in with her images of the natural beauty in the world. Drawing and painting since an early age, her expressive voice uses bold colors, vibrant, flowing movements and rhythms. Her art has been her life and inspiration to her students. The focus of this exhibit is her excitement that comes through in her depiction of fruits and vegetables juxtaposed with manmade items as a source of nourishment for the body and mind.

 Dan Burke is a serious woodworker who is inspired by the beauty and variety of woods. To our delight, he crafts boxes for jewelry or keepsakes. His concepts underline the clean designs of his work with the goal of highlighting the wood’s grain to bring out their natural beauty, in basic forms of squares, rectangles with gentle curves. The end results are finely made pieces that you want to touch and use.

Viewpoint
November 1- December 20

Alice Mostoff’s “color-filled images are vigorous, energetic and gestural landscapes and abstractions. These works convey a sense of rhythm and spontaneity.” Alice has been developing her fine art and evolving her drawing and painting style continuously and finds herself facing new horizons with each successive body of work she produces. Her sense of color and design draws the viewer into the world of her art whether real or imagined.

Klaudia Levin is an artist who uses stoneware and porcelain clays to create both functional and visual ceramic pieces. Klaudia works with reduction firing and is a recognized expert in Raku. “She turns functional pieces of attractive balance and weight on the wheel and occasionally hand builds her forms to extend asymmetry and negative space. Klaudia’s pieces are inspired by nature and by her surroundings, and capture the shape, texture and free light play on the urban outdoors.”