MERIDEN — The opening reception of three incredible exhibits: Aidron Duckworth Exhibition XXXIV — The Multitudes Contained, Anne Johnstone, Lush Surface, and Dan Waller, Sharp Focus is on Saturday, July 27 at 3 p.m. at the Aidron Duckworth Art Museum in Meriden.
In the final exhibit of Duckworth’s work at the museum, this exhibit examines themes of the multi-faceted self that would fascinate Duckworth throughout his life and career. Working in styles ranging from realist to cartoonish, beautiful to grotesque, Duckworth returned over and over to the multiple portrait and the multidimensional face. The multiplicity of the self becomes Duckworth’s subject in place of the composition of features. Humans are complex amalgams — bodies and faces and memories and thoughts — and in these pictures Duckworth refuses to let them be simplified.
The exhibit Lush Surface, new paintings and works on paper by Boston area artist Anne Johnstone explores mark making and her expanding relationship between painting and emotion. Layering in splashes and scratches, the skin of Johnstone’s painting develops in bursts of energy and careful contemplation. Colors blend, marks pile and paint at its most material becomes form and object and picture.
Sharp Focus is an exhibition of new sculptures by Dan Waller. Dan Waller is a sculptor, fabricator, and master printer working in New York City. The size of Waller’s modest objects does not betray the potency each piece offers. Using materials as eccentric as human hair, rose thorns, and the patterned end pages of hard bound books, his objects become reliquaries of mysterious holdings from an unknown yet seemingly familiar religion.
The opening reception will be held Saturday, July 27, 3 p.m.-6 p.m. and there will be artist talks at 4 p.m. and 5 p.m.
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