February 24 - March 30, 2024
From Ro2 Art:
“Ro2 Art is very excited to present Grapefruit Sunrise, an exhibition of new paintings by Dallas-based artist Erica Stephens. The exhibition will open February 24, 2024 and remain on view through March 30, 2024, at Ro2 Art Gallery, located at 2606 Bataan St., Dallas, TX, with an opening reception to be held February 24 from 7-10pm.
In Grapefruit Sunrise, Erica Jon Stephens explores themes of loneliness and femininity through subtly surreal still-life paintings, collages, and fabric works. Playing with vivid colors and whimsical shifts in scale, Stephens’ tablescapes conjure simultaneous feelings of joy and grief, contentedness and solitude, irony and sentimentality. In one painting, a solitary lobster lays on a blue plate, appearing unusually small next to a robust grapefruit, cut in half, and a towering vase full of curiously flat, mauve flowers. Adding another uncanny element, Stephens uses richly saturated colors, including warm purples, pinks, and reds contrasted against glints of blues and greens. Loneliness is suggested by the absence of a figure seated at the table, and yet there is a strong sense of radiant tranquility, and even humor, in both color choice and composition. Through her own lens of womanhood, Stephens’ exhibition Grapefruit Sunrise examines loneliness, fantasy, and memory in emotionally and psychologically charged still lives.”
Reception: February 24, 2024 | 7–10 pm
2606 Bataan Street
Dallas, 75212 Texas
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