THE SKY – KATE BREAKEY AND BRETT STARR

Posted on 2021-05-03

The Sky exhibition of images by two Tucson artists, Kate Breakey and Brett Starr, who recently discovered they had a mutual interest in the heavens. Each of them having looked upward, and felt compelled to make images of the sky, for years. For this exhibition they have gathered together their daytime and nighttime images-of clouds, rainbows, the sun and the moon, comets and cosmic events.

Most recently they collaborated to make deep sky images using an online telescope on the other side of the world. ‘It was exciting and conceptually poetic to instruct a telescope that is 9,000 miles away to point at an object – a galaxy, or nebulae- on the other side of the universe, and make an image for us to contemplate and print. The incomprehension and wonder you feel is transforming – it puts time and life on earth into perspective, and that is always a good thing’

Opposite – Brett Starr, “Above The Horizon”

Exhibition runs through to June 19th, 2021

Art Intersection
207 N Gilbert Rd #201
Gilbert
AZ 85234

artintersection.com

  

ALESSANDRO PESSOLI – CAROUSEL

Posted on 2021-05-03

These are imaginary portraits of male and female figures. The classic pose of the figures is contaminated by Disney characters and illustrations from William Blake’s Divina Commedia, a reshuffling of iconographies and symbologies. Flowers, apples, birds, skulls, swords, snakes, wings, and talons are some of the elements that accompany and characterize the figures.

The title, Carousel, recalls the continuous rotating, going up and down, a play, an entertainment, it represents a way to outline the human condition through symbolic figures and scenes from Western art history such as Adam and Eve, The Expulsion from Paradise, the isolation, the temptation, the fall, and the rebirth.

Opposite – Jung William Blake, 2021

Exhibition runs through to May 15th, 2021

Anton Kern Gallery
16 East 55th Street
10022
New York

www.antonkerngallery.com