CX Silver Gallery presents works by Debi Pendell
Acrylic, collage, and mixed media on canvas.
The exhibit, “Reading Meanings” by artist Debi Pendell, will be on display at the CX Silver Gallery, 814 Western Avenue, from Friday, July 10 to Saturday, September 26. There will be an opening reception on Saturday, July 11, from 1 to 3 pm.
Pendell’s works are investigations of semiotics, language, and meaning based in the format of landscape painting. Concentrating on abstract elements of recognizable shapes and characters in combination with materials and processes, Pendell plays with symbols of both visual art and language and how people “read” them and make meaning from them.
Letters, numbers, math equations, and such are used abstractly, serving as value, texture, pattern, and spatial indicators. Trees, birds, circles, and other images are used as abstract symbols in the same way.
Viewers often mistake Pendell’s works for encaustic, however only acrylic gels and mediums are used. The paintings are based in collage and employ painting, drawing, and mixed media. Layers of the clear acrylic encaustic-like treatment embed the collage elements within layers of the various processes and materials.
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