Please join us for Artists
' Gallery's next show:
"Double Vision"
featuring Jennifer Cadoff
and Doug Sardo
October 5 - November 4, 2012
Opening reception: Saturday, Oct 6, 4 to 7 pm
Walk into the Artists' Gallery (18 Bridge Street, Lambertville) this month, and
be prepared to feast your eyes on two very different takes on contemporary art
in "Double Vision," featuring Jennifer Cadoff and Doug Sardo.
Doug Sardo
"Autumn Canal Walk"
18 x 24", pastel on paper
Doug Sardo's medium is pastel, and he revels in sumptuous color. For this
show, Sardo continues to draw upon the beautiful local landscape around his
Buck's County home for inspiration, but with a new twist: "Instead of making a
single painting on location, I've been working in the studio on three
variations of each of five different scenes," Sardo explains. "It's been
exciting to explore the ways in which subtle changes -- color choices, for
example, or different ways of applying pigment to paper -- can have an enormous
impact on a painting's visual and emotional resonance."
Jennifer Cadoff
"Nature, Collaged #1"
16 x 20", ink and watercolor paper collage
While Princeton NJ artist Jennifer Cadoff also works in series, almost
everything else about her work in this show stands in stark contrast to
Sardo's: It is black and white, abstract, and minutely detailed. Cadoff uses
the repetition of tiny distinctive marks (lines, circles, scribbling) to build
her drawings in black ink on creamy watercolor paper.
Some of the works on display are large and deceptively simple -- for example, a
22 x 30 inch sheet is covered with delicate parallel lines, producing the
impression of moving water. Other pieces are layered and collaged, and a few
include recognizable flower and leaf forms. Says Cadoff of this new direction
in her work, "I've been having fun cutting and ripping my large drawings, then
playing with the pieces to see how interact they with one another."
"Double Vision" will be on display at The Artists'
Gallery in Lambertville Friday, Oct 5, through Sunday, Nov 4, 2012. An opening reception will be held Saturday, Oct 6, 4-7 pm.
