Since opening in 2005, Catherine Person has emerged from our ever-expanding and increasingly varied local art landscape as an important gallery with a strong and unique sensibility. The shows which best define it have been by women artists such as Linda Davidson, Deborah Lawrence, Pam Keely, and Dawn Cerny, all of whom explore ideas of social order and their inevitable unraveling. The current show, Black & White, is a darker, more solemn affair. While the art works by Colleen Hayward, Davis Freeman, Eric Elliott, Lynne Saad, Nola Avienne, Seth D'Ambrosia and Teresa Redden seem, at first glance, to have little in common other than their stark palate, collectively they assume a shared sense of absence and dormancy.
Avienne's black squares of scraped concentric circles set the tone of the show, anchoring the other great works -- especially Davidson's painting Genie and the smaller, sparer pieces by Eric Elliott -- that surround them. Davis Freeman's colossal nude photographs provide a striking contrast and counterpoint to these spectre-like and occasionally haunting presences.
Black & White runs through February 9th.
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Jim Demetre
Artdish Editor
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