Deigo Sanchez
Page Bond Gallery Nov. 17th 2009
Mary Scurlock
This work By Mary Scurlock represents a departure from her past works on paper. Working on paper for most of the past 25 years she had considered using panels but had never really explored their potential until now. She works on these panels by applying 5 or 6 layers of gesso then sanding and scratching back into the panels. Through out her process she adds layers of wax in with the oil paint and further develops the surface by way of automatic writing. Another aspect of these works is her use of a much more muted color palette. Her past worked was marked by brighter colors as well as a larger range of media used in developing her work. the images of trees follow a pattern of drawing from life and then moving in a direction more representative than realistic. She intends to continue working with these tree images and in this new direction.
Diego Sanchez
For the most part the work by Deigo Sanchez does not represent a departure from his past works. Still presenting images of the Colosseum, he has begun to add images of chairs found left out to the garbage as well as overpasses in an effort to uplift the locations and items in question to the level of importance represented by the Colosseum. His color palette is bright and his obsession with the surfaces of the work is clear as he invited the audience to touch and feel the paintings. In his process he paints complete back grounds and after considering the space decides on an images to paint over it. Additionally he paints no representational objects over the near completed works to slow the viewers assessment of the painting hoping to bring the viewer to consider the work in all of its complexity.
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