Fiabane | New Paintings 2013
Excerpt from the press release for my recent solo show at Fleming Street Gallery in Key West (March 2013). Back in the studio working for my July 5th show at Old Spouter Gallery in Nantucket.
...The wonderful elegance and subtle intensity which characterize her work is beautifully evident in this latest collection.
There is a poetic economy taking place in Fiabane’s communication with the viewer. Her new work leaves as much unsaid as is spoken. The distinction between interior and exterior life; ours, yours, mine, the world’s-- is once again called into question under Fiabane’s observant artistic eye. This show challenges our idea of “inside and outside” because the changing points of view available to the viewer impose few limits.
In this show, as a contrast to our daily dose of tropical heat, light, and color, we are given Fiabane’s subtle palette, a reflection of her summers spent in cooler northern climates. Looking at “Daybreak at the Pasture”, it is easy to feel oneself standing on a road in the soft morning light of a northern sunrise.
Her artistic vision tantalizes us with the hint of something taking place just past the limits of our senses as defined in the world each painting creates. These paintings seem to bring into being a time and place that may, or may not exist, and yet one which feels so familiar.
There is a balance struck between an apparent calm and an undercurrent of intensity in Fiabane’s new work. In this world of light and breezes streaming through windows and curtains, of sea and sky, there is a strong sense of spiritual energy. Fiabane has achieved a sense of precision and confidence in these new works...
