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Ann Korologos Gallery presents, Nature’s Narratives, a group exhibition showcasing painter Peter Campbell, watercolorist Katie DeGroot, and mixed media artist Allison Stewart. A master of their medium, each artist applies skill and imagination as commentary on the beauty, destruction, and personification of the natural world. The exhibition, Nature’s Narratives is on view from January 13 to 31, 2024, at Ann Korologos Gallery in Basalt, CO.
“Nature’s Narratives is a personal dialogue between each artist, the landscape, and the viewer, exploring the natural world and its interactions with our humanity,” reflects gallery director, Sue Edmonds. “Peter Campbell depicts emotions elicited by a landscape with the vibrancy of a dream; Katie DeGroot playfully personifies and reimagines fallen branches in decay collected from the woods of New York as a new life; Allison Stewart processes love and grief of life and landscape, celebrating moments of breath and creation, mourning change and loss.”
Peter Campbell is a Durango-based artist whose landscape paintings are abstract views of nature. Additionally, his work is a perspective informed by his photographic background. Campbell sparks ideas for his landscape oil paintings with a fleeting glimpse that catches his eye and elicits an intimate and personal reaction to nature. Furthermore, by limiting his palette and omitting details, he creates an atmosphere, a mood, and sometimes a fantasy that is open to each viewer’s interpretation. The artist works on location, connecting directly with the landscape. According to Campbell, this brings the outside into a painting, imbuing it with elements that make it alive. Check out Peter Campbell’s work at our exhibition, Nature’s Narratives.
Katie DeGroot is a New York-based artist whose watercolor paintings explore the contrast of growth and decay, surrealism and abstraction, nature and form. Using branches as an observational starting point, the painter responds within the language of contemporary painting. Decaying branches and trees festooned by lichens, moss and mushrooms find new life in the studio of Katie DeGroot. Furthermore, she reimagines and personifies these natural elements as a group of gossip girls walking down the street, of dancers, or sleeping couples. Her work is informed by Gladys Niilson, Alice Neel, Giorgio Morandi, Henri Matisse, Charles Burchfield, Barbara Takenaga, and others. Check out Katie DeGroot’s work at our exhibition, Nature’s Narratives.
Allison Stewart shares her time between New Orleans, LA, and Snowmass, CO. The artist’s nature-based abstract paintings reflect the duality of substance and spirit, image and impression, observation and memory. For her mixed media work, Stewart uses canvas or paper. Her inspiration is from stories of restoration, cultivation, and conservation in both the natural world and her life in stories that often intersect. Stewart paints abstract visual diaries of her emotions about a landscape and nature in the act of becoming. Additionally, she reflects her emotions through nature in the act of changing and of altering itself or being altered. Check out Allison Stewart’s work at our exhibition, Nature’s Narratives.
Nature’s Narratives featuring Peter Campbell, Katie DeGroot and Allison Stewart will remain on view through January 31, 2024. For more information, please visit Ann Korologos Gallery at 211 Midland Avenue in Basalt, call (970) 927-9668 or email art@korologosgallery.com.
