Ann Korologos Gallery presents By the Water, a group exhibition featuring paintings, reduction linocuts, and mixed media work by Brett Scheifflee, Linda Lillegraven, Sherrie York, Sean Wallis and more. From rushing water to mirrored reflections, from virga to snow, from Rocky Mountain summer moments to Spring in the desert, from the fishermen wading in to the fowl that glide across, the artists of Ann Korologos Gallery explore the dynamism and nuance of this transformative element in an equally diverse nature. The exhibition is on view June 7 to 28th at Ann Korologos Gallery in historic downtown Basalt, Colorado and virtually at korologosgallery.com.
“Transmuting form and function, water is a temporary visitor,” reflects Sue Edmonds considering the theme of the exhibition. As to the subject, “Consider the journey of water – from cloud to river to forest to ice to desert – and the ways it sustains life around us.”
Linda Lillegraven is a Wyoming-based painter and biologist who loves to paint the open prairie, striving to include a minimal amount of detail while simultaneously giving the viewer a sense of space. Through Lillegraven’s detailed and knowing eye, she cuts through the thin air, hard light and barely discernible transitions of color and tone characteristic of the thin atmospheres of Colorado and Wyoming. Lillegraven uses the glassy surface of water to expand the impact of expansive, gradient skies.
Brett Scheifflee is a realist painter whose love of Colorado and the Roaring Fork Valley continues to push him to paint the challenging atmosphere in his realist style. Scheifflee’s tightly painted, highly detailed landscapes are informed by his study of drawing, illustration, and art history, and have earned him a national reputation. The soft light, simple composition, careful detail and hyper realism of Scheifflee’s oil paintings enthrall his collectors.
Sherrie York is also a Colorado printmaker, painter and draughtswoman based in Maine with an international reputation for lyrical and expressive works on paper. True to her meticulous representations of her observations in the natural world as a biologist in her 20s, York’s printmaker’s eye is drawn to intricate flora, the interaction of birds with water, and the patterns across land and seascapes. York uses waterscapes to work with geometric patterns and the subject to create ripples through time and space.
Sean Wallis is a painter based in Salt Lake City, Utah. As an impressionist, Wallis pays close attention to the relationship of light and color, capturing fleeting moments with the texture of oil paint, loose brushwork and colorful palette. His work with light, hue, and atmosphere manifest through a skillful combination of colors that vibrates and excites the eye, resulting in an uncanny illusion of depth and movement.
By the Water is on view June 7 to 28 at Ann Korologos Gallery in Basalt, Colorado and virtually. Learn more by visiting korologosgallery.com, see the exhibition in person at 211 Midland Avenue in Basalt, CO, and inquire by emailing art@korologosgallery.com.
