KENT—Kenise Barnes Fine Art, 7 Fulling Lane, will open a new exhibition. “Slipping Glimpser,” featuring painters Susan English, Julie Gross and Audrey Stone Aug 31 with a reception from 4 to 6 p.m. The show will continue through Oct. 13.
All three women have careers centered around their use of color and abstraction. Susan English’s paintings use a sophisticated vocabulary of color and surface. By pouring layers of tinted polymer paints, English has arrived at a body of work whose minimalist appearance belies their complexities.
Through a series of planned pours and the manipulation of smooth aluminum panels, English both directs and anticipates how the paint will accumulate, disperse, resist, and form its own small abstractions. The thickness and viscosity of the paint dictates the subtleties in appearance and the intensity of each color. Her paintings’ surfaces range from matte to medium or high gloss, each variously absorbing or reflecting light.
Susan English’s paintings have been widely exhibited in galleries and at art fairs. She has won numerous awards and residencies.
Julie Gross’ paintings contrast rhythmic color and forms based on sine waves or ‘s’ curves. By bifurcating, multiplying or segmenting forms, this work continues an engagement with images in flux and stasis as well as spatial and temporal perceptual play.
Gross’ choice of hue carries each shape’s energy forward. Color value, intensity and temperature enable optimal variety of interaction and surprising combinations.
Her work has been widely shown throughout the United States and has been reviewed in Art in America, the New York Times, Arts Magazine and Art News, to name a few.
Audrey Stone is known for her elegant abstract geometric paintings and for her expertise with color. In Stone’s paintings, she explores the boundaries between broad and narrow bands of adjacent colors to generate visual vibration. Intrigued by the way the eye and brain process these transitions, the artist is engaged in the viewer’s emotional and physical responses.
Stone’s work has been widely exhibited in the United States, and in Japan, England, and Austria. Her work is in the collections of the Ameritas Foundation, Cleveland Clinic, Copelouzos Art Museum, Credit Suisse, Fidelity Investments, New York Presbyterian Hospital, to name a few.
Stone has exhibited with the Kenise Barnes Fine Art since 2019.
