April 29 - June 4, 2021
“Dimmitt Contemporary Art is pleased to announce SHIFT, a group exhibition showcasing new works by 15 female artists celebrating a new season with new perspectives. SHIFT will feature a diverse range of emerging and established female artists: Holly Addi, Ruth Borgenicht, Melissa Chandon, Madeline Denaro, Margaret Evangeline, Sarah Ferguson, Sara Genn, Lori Glavin, Logan Ledford, Heidi Lender, Larissa Lockshin, Mallory Page, Kate Roebuck, Lynn Sanders and Wendel Wirth. The exhibition will be on view Thursday, April 29th through June 4th, 2021.
Holly Addi (b. 1973, Salt Lake City, UT) Addi is a Salt Lake City-based artist who creates abstract paintings focused on the philosophy of beauty in imperfection. With a background in psychology, Addi examines energy, color, space and landscape through tempered abstraction. Addi considers her practice as a composition of imperfectionism.
Ruth Borgenicht (b. 1967, New York, NY) Borgenicht is a New Jersey-based ceramicist who utilizes the chain mail pattern to create sculptures and vessels that conjure up a sense of permanence and defensive concealment. Visually stone-like, her pieces appear strong and impenetrable, belying their inherent fragility.
Melissa Chandon (b. 1952, Biloxi, MS) Chandon is a Sacramento-based artist whose pared-down compositions are animated full of Pop-inspired colors. Chandon’s paintings push everyday scenes toward the brink of imaginative, dynamic abstraction. In her vibrant, graphic world infused with California light, landscape breaks down into basic elements, what she calls “core essence,” while shadows and reflections take on a life of their own.
Madeline Denaro (b. Bronx, NY) Denaro is a Fort Lauderdale-based artist whose work is a product of her involved creative process. Although abstract in nature, there is an underlying visual order that gradually emerges. Working intuitively, the artist enters a realm of the unknown where there is more of a following than deliberate choice. The artist attests to be forever altering and adjusting the framework of her invisible, creative reality.
Margaret Evangeline (b. 1943, Baton Rouge, LA) Evangeline is a Brooklyn-based contemporary painter, sculptor and installation artist whose cajun heritage has come to define her work. Evangeline is known for her camellia paintings that depict the southern bloom as an icon either over fluid, wave-like networks of lines or centralized on the picture plane, dominating the composition.
Sarah Ferguson (b. 1973, Boulder, CO) Ferguson is an Austin-based artist who experiments with the trifecta of light, color and perception who aims to evoke introspection through her paintings. Color theory and geometry are influential components in Ferguson’s work, yet serves as a psychological opposite. While the exploration of color systems and theories invite a sense of freedom, the utilization of geometric formations invites a sense of control.
Sara Genn (b. 1972, Vancouver, Canada) Genn is a Palm Springs-based artist known for her sensitive use of color and patterning in her abstract works that hint at alphabetic symbols and language. Genn often references the landscape, personal objects or textile using soaking and staining techniques in an effort to shift our perception of the traditions of painting and craft. Her work exhibits a mastery of color concepts and a deliberate, hand-made record of an internal world.
Lori Glavin (b. 1958, Buffalo, NY) Glavin is a Connecticut-based abstract painter, printmaker and collage artist whose work is influenced by the repetitions and rhythms of domestic life. Glavin collects, combines and sorts, alternating between large and small shapes to make an arrangement of nuanced color and shape that become a monument to minutia.
Logan Ledford (b. 1987, Baton Rouge, LA) Ledford is a New Orleans-based artist known for her minimalist approach and unapologetic use of color when it comes to her compositions. Her work embodies a sense of chaos of constant changing tides that pull into a whirlwind of ambitious ideation. In contrast, the need to organize and control overwhelms these ever changing tides. Her work reveals these contrasting emotions in their sporadic color and organic form with grid-like or centered circle compositions.
Heidi Lender (b. 1966, New Haven, CT) Lender is a Uruguay-based fine-art photographer whose whimsical pay on self-portraits explore combinations of wardrobes and surrounding spaces as reflections of her personal self. Standing on various surfaces, Lender exhibits how different wardrobes and environments can quickly alter the way a person is perceived by the outside world.
Larissa Lockshin (b. 1992, Toronto, Canada) Lockshin is a New York-based abstract artist known for her whimsical, champagne-hued satin paintings. Inspired by Edgar Degas’ ballerina dancers, Lockshin’s characteristic tulip and heart shapes become like tulle skirts spinning across the stage, similar to a musical landscape.
Mallory Page (b. 1983, Lafayette, LA) Page is a New Orleans-based abstract artist specializing in large-scale, thinly-layered monochromatic paintings. With each composition focusing on a singular hue, Page’s work is a sophisticated study in perception, exploring how measured changes in color and light can affect shifts in visual understanding. Rendered on an imposing scale, her compositions become enveloping environments of their own.
Kate Roebuck (b. 1985, Pittsburgh, PA) Roebuck is a Tennessee-based multimedia artist whose work is best described as witty, unconventional, and rhythmic, chasing the elusive balance of playfulness and precision. Influenced by her background in textile design, Roebuck finds inspiration in form, pattern, color, and texture. Distilling various botanical forms into simplified shapes, her ink drawings have a playful, pictographic tone.
Lynn Sanders (b. 1969, Melbourne, FL) Sanders is a Louisiana-based abstract expressionist painter whose work is largely influenced by her relationship to impatience and impulsivity. Working with a variety of mediums on each canvas, she paints intuitively—adding, mixing, editing, and layering colors upon colors that drive the process forward. The resulting works are emotive, tactile, and experiential.
Wendel Wirth (b.1966, New York, NY) Wirth is an Idaho-based fine-art photographer interested in the space between minimalist art and photography.Her work finds its home somewhere between abstraction and realism, ultimately pushing the viewer’s attention beyond the subject and celebrating the most essential and elemental aspects of the photograph.
Established in 2013, Dimmitt Contemporary Art specializes in promoting the work of emerging, mid-career and established contemporary artists working in all media including painting, works on paper, sculpture and photography.”
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