Myths and Fragments From Reconfigured Memory
April 24 – May 18, 2024
Reception: Saturday, April 27, 3–5 pm
“The Lost Message and Elephant From Piazza Minerva”
In the past decades, visual language has sought alternate expressions and continues to be in search of its multifarious nature. The paintings and collages in this exhibit explore some aspects of a theme Paul Gauguin wrote about in 1888, of being “inclined in passing thought into something quite different than literature.” Visual signs and emblems found in these works attempt to unravel the rhythmic pulse of thought and memory as well as the passage of time and place. What does one remember and what does one forget from the multiple visual forms seen in passing. Analogies between music and poetry lend clues to the suggestive, evocative and irretrievable memory of things. These paintings take fragments, myths, and different time sequences to grasp the elusive essence of personnages and locations. Images can become fragmented and condensed into a more porous spatial context fusing the past and present. Characters appear as apparitional or transform as observers or participants in a place no longer fixed, but open to a spatial arena of memory and duration.
Wendy Gittler has a Master’s degree in both Painting and Art History. She has taught at Hunter College, The School of Visual Arts, and The New York Studio School amongst other places. She has traveled extensively in the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and the Tropics. She has had numerous solo exhibits. She has written for Art News, Provincetown Arts, Art Critical, Likovne-Art Magazine from Slovenia, and many Artists Catalogs.
Gallery Hours: Wednesday to Saturday, 11 am – 6 pm
