September 23 - October 30, 2023
From Lydia Street Gallery:
“East Austin’s Lydia Street Gallery will honor the work of Madelon Umlauf in an upcoming exhibit, Harmonizing the Rapture of Color. The exhibit will take place from September 23, 0223 until October 30, 2023. An Artist Reception will be held Saturday, September 23, 6-9 pm.
Madelon Umlauf, daughter of Charles (of Austin’s notable Umlauf Sculpture Garden) and Angeline, was born in Austin Texas in 1942. She pursued her art education at the University of Texas in Austin, as well as New York City. Madelon taught painting for 30 years at Austin Community College, while also painting for herself in a downtown Austin studio.
Madelon’s paintings are inspired by nature. Starting with natural motifs, she then reworks her discoveries into abstract paintings. The paintings achieve their finality when their forms in illusionistic deep space, come into dynamic and coloristic balance. Although her paintings are inspired by nature, she often chooses color palettes which are atypical of the usual colors one sees in nature and attracted to round paintings because they do not have ratios. Most paintings, being rectangular, have various ratios of width to height, but human binocular vision is circular in format. By virtue of taking over one’s oval of vision, the aesthetic impact of round paintings is stronger than that of rectangular paintings.
Ancient civilizations acknowledged the circle as a sacred shape. Madelon’s work reflects a belief that abstract art is the key to a full comprehension of reality. Her work is meant to elicit an interpretation, one that leaves the realm of experience open to intuition as a main factor of transformation.
Lydia Street Gallery exhibits mid and late-career artists from Austin and beyond. Lydia Street hopes to provide artists the attention they deserve and a welcoming place for the community to engage in the beautiful, challenging, mystifying world of art.
The gallery is located at the heart of the East End IBIZ district in central East Austin at 200 East 11th St. #109, Austin, Texas, 78702, at the intersection of Lydia Street & Juniper St.
Gallery hours are 12pm to 5pm Saturdays and Sundays or by appointment weekdays. Street parking only.
For more information on this event contact Paula Biehler at [email protected].
To contact gallerist Deanna Miesch or for more information, call 512-524-1051, send an email to [email protected] or visit lydiastreetgallery.com.”
Reception: September 23, 2023 | 6–9 pm
Closing: October 29, 2023 | 4–6 pm
1200 East 11th Street #109
Austin, 78702 Texas
(512) 524-1051
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