2015: All In @ Riverside Arts Center

Above: Magalie Guerin standing before her paintings, "Untitled (hat-red room)" 2014, oil on canvas, 16x24 inches, at left, and "Untitled (hat-lingerie)" 2014, oil on canvas, 20x16 inches, at right, during the opening reception for "All In" at Riverside Arts Center on January 25, 2015.

"All In"
Diana Gabriel, Magalie Guerin, Alexander Herzog, John Phillips, Melody Saraniti, Scott Stack, Christopher Smith
Curated by Karen Azarnia
January 25 – February 21, 2015
Riverside Arts Center
32 E. Quincy Street
Riverside, IL

http://www.riversideartscenter.com/

"The Riverside Arts Center is pleased to present 'All In,' a group exhibition featuring artists who share a love for painting and a reverence for abstraction. With an insistence on the haptic qualities of the hand-made object, the work included in this exhibition ranges from the imperfections of the loose gesture to the precision of hard-edge abstraction. Throughout all, the fundamental elements of line and shape present an entry point that strikes a balance between intellectual and emotional intelligence. Working within a set range of parameters, ranging from conceptual, to process-based or the performative action of mark and gesture, each artist commits themselves to fully mine and explore a particular avenue of formal inquiry. With rigorous practices, in which nuanced variations function to generate richly complex iterations, the insistence on the basic use of line and shape creates provocative visual relationships and a shared lyricism. The simplicity of these basic formal elements can be deceptive; there is risk and the danger of failure. The greater the risk, the greater the reward. - Karen Azarnia"

Quotation above from: http://www.thevisualist.org/2015/01/all-in/

Above: Chris Smith standing before his painting, "Untitled IM32" 2014, acrylic, oil, charcoal on panel, 40x36 inches, during the opening reception for "All In" at Riverside Arts Center on January 25, 2015.

Above: Diana Gabriel standing before her painting, "Shifted" 2015, acrylic on panel, 16x16 inches, during the opening reception for "All In" at Riverside Arts Center on January 25, 2015.

Above: Scott Stack standing before his painting, "Untitled" 2013, oil on canvas, 78x66 inches, during the opening reception for "All In" at Riverside Arts Center on January 25, 2015.

Above: Melody Saraniti standing before her piece, "Hexylene,", acrylic on wood, 44x14 inches, during the opening reception for "All In" at Riverside Arts Center on January 25, 2015.

Above: Kim Piotrowski, Board of Directors' President, at left, and Karen Azarnia, Director of Exhibitions, at right, standing before a painting by John Phillips, "Untitled" 2014, acrylic on canvas, 77x64 inches, during the opening reception for "All In" at Riverside Arts Center on January 25, 2015.

Above: Alexander Herzog's "Graft 1" 2015, oil on LDF, 43x43 inches, at the opening reception for "All In" at Riverside Arts Center on January 25, 2015.

Above:
Images (1-6) January 25, 2015;
Copyright Paul E. Germanos.
Image (7) Alexander Herzog.