It’s been 3 years since my last show at Art & Light Gallery and I’m so excited to be heading back to Greenville on May 3rd for the opening of Breath | Air, a two person show with Asheville artist, Alicia Armstrong.
Alicia paints beautiful figurative work in which she intertwines the female figure with intricate, vintage wallpaper-like patterns. We both approach our subjects from a desire to create from a place of memory– our paintings are not literal but layered in atmosphere and color.
From “Oxygen” by Mary Oliver
“You are breathing patiently;
it is a
beautiful sound. It is
your life..
Then it settles
to quietude, or maybe gratitude, as it feeds
as we all do, as we must, upon the invisible gift:
our purest, sweet necessity: the air.”
We are in a constant state of exchange with our environment– we are one, as the air that fills our lungs and gives us life is the same air that sustains all of the life that surrounds us. We breathe the air that becomes the breath, that breath becomes air– a continuous, interdependent cycle of life.
If you’re in the Greenville area, I hope you’ll come by the Breath | Air opening on Friday, May 3rd to see the show and say hello! The show will be up at Art & Light through the end of May.
