(Featured Image: Pamela Staker, “Abstract Study (garden at night)” 2021 oil on canvas, 30″ × 36”)
Fragments of the Familiar: Nature in Abstraction
Bridgeport Art Center
3rd Floor Gallery
Curated by Pamela Staker
January 17 – March 7
Opening Reception Friday January 17, 7 – 10 pm
Nature has long served as both inspiration and subject matter in abstract painting, offering artists a rich and symbolic language to explore emotion, form, and structure. The impressionist movement laid the groundwork for modern-day abstraction through its novel attempts to paint the essence of light and color in the natural environment. The 20th century produced artists whose innovations in abstraction found them employing nature’s chaotic, energetic, and elemental qualities as metaphors for human emotion and the subconscious mind. This collective legacy continues to inspire the three painters in this exhibition as they use memory and philosophical observation to inform their exploration of nature and abstraction.
Exhibiting Artists:
Alissar Najd Langworthy
Katie Luo
Pamela Staker
Pamela Staker: “Abstract Study (potted plant no.5)” (2023) Oil on canvas, 30 x 60” Available: $5,500.00
Pamela Staker “Abstract Study (table top no.2)” (2019) Oil, gold leaf, silver leaf, copper leaf on canvas, 40 x 40” Available: $5,200.00
Pamela Staker “Abstract Study (begin again)” (2018) Oil on canvas, 42 x 42” Available: $5,500.00
Bridgeport Art Center
1200 W. 35th Street
Chicago