- May 2, 2024
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Hollingsworth Gallery will host a three person show opening 6-9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 14 featuring an installation by Krystyna Spisak-Madejczyk, photography by Mercedez McCartney and abstract painting by Diane Gilson.
Gilson believes in the movement of color, the push and pull a hue can provide a viewer. As an abstract figure painter, her work has changed over the years, the figures slowly disappearing into abstraction.
She is influenced greatly by her mother, who was an impressionistic portrait painter with a wonderful sense of colors. In one of her earliest childhood memories, Gilson remembers her mother’s brush going into the orange paint and then how it changes colors as it smeared across the white paper.
Gilson’s love of color and desire to engage has resulted in a call and response in her paintings.
“You look at the painting and it’s saying red, no yellow – you move around and you are no longer in control – it’s a symbiotic result between yourself and the canvas,” she said.
When it comes to abstract art, Gilson said some people don’t understand it. But there is no underlying message in her work. It’s all about the colors, like music.
Similar to Gilson expression's of self through color, McCartney uses her camera to voice what she can't find the words for. She photographs people and objects in their natural state without preconceived ideas of what she will shoot. It’s about the connection.
“The wonderful thing about letting my inner voice choose the end result is that I don't have to search for the words,” she said.
The show will be rounded out by Spisak-Madejczyk’s internationally exhibited installation and a piece by gallery curator J.J. Graham.
