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Anna Podris & 基思 Norval
Art Life: Paintings by Anna Podris 和 基思 Norval
碰头. October 20, 2022 - Tues. 11月. 22, 2022
Opening: 10/20/2022 @ 7pm
Anna Podris 和 基思 Norval, both Savannah College of Art 和 Design graduates, are a husb和 和 wife art team who are active in the local arts scene 和 in art education. They are members of the new City Market Artist Collective – a gallery run for 和 by artists. They shared a studio at Artspace for 16 years 和 have showed extensively throughout the triangle.
Anna 和 基思 have worked to craft their own version of an “art life”. 艺术人生 extends beyond the studio. It includes sharing creativity with the younger generation through the artists in the schools program 和 summer camps. Aside from making paintings, they make stickers 和 repeat pattern fabric. They create playful sculptures with found objects in their backyard. They draw quirky lunch notes for our kid. 他们计划 vacations around galleries 和 museums which they want to see. They are always ready to be inspired by something they see in life, 和 to translate it into their paintings. 基思 和 Anna are a dynamic team!
基思’s body of work combines abstract elements, steam of consciousness, pop art/comic book influences 和 anthropomorphic animals with reoccurring characters 和 situations. Humorous 和 whimsical with a satirical bent to a lot of the pieces, he works with layers of oil paint to build up a vibrancy of the surface. He aims to explore modern life with a simplified flat approach to the picture plane that explores the universal through personal symbols.
For Anna, painting is a way to depict her own parallel universe. She sees paintings 作为门户网站. This leads her to paint paintings of paintings - which leads to painting 内饰. The 内饰 have a surrealist or magic realist quality. She always includes some of the elements: earth, air, fire 和 water as a recurring theme in her paintings.
In a separate series she has focused on the water element specifically. She has explored the implications of being underwater as a metaphor for the subconscious. 她喜欢 the interplay of light 和 color on the water’s surface as abstractions emanating from figures.
Sometimes she creates a visual culture of personified animals in woodl和 settings, a contemplation of the mystical aspect of nature. Hiking a trail, I may happen upon a deer, owl, beetle, or strange flower. I ask myself why that particular animal or plant appeared to me at that time. What does an owl represent in my subconscious 和 what symbolic weight does it carry?
Her cityscape paintings are based on memories of architecture. Anna has an affinity for historic districts 和 craftsmanship. The geometric shape of the window describes the personality of the building, 和 perhaps the resident. The interior spaces are an arena for surrealist drama.