CAUSALITY

The Brooklyn Crit Group

November 9 – 27, 2021
Opening Reception:
Thursday, November 11, 2021; 6pm – 8pm

The Atlantic Gallery is pleased to present Causality, a richly diverse group show curated by art writer and painter, Kim Power. The exhibit brings together the work of eleven accomplished women artists, who in 2019 formed The Brooklyn Crit Group. In what has become an uncertain environment for creatives, they have continued to work rigorously in their studios, while providing support and exchanging ideas. Despite obvious differences in style, concept, and medium, the thirty-eight artworks included in this exhibition are emblematic of the importance of self-expression and dynamic investigation of the world around us.

The works of Cora Jane Glasser express, through architectural abstraction and materiality, a connection to her New York City roots. Her circular Vault Lights, some painted in oil and acrylic on UV Façade Tyvek, offer a window into another dimension or time.

Kathleen Migliore Newton’s Watching reflects movement and figuration within the urban landscape, painted in bold bright colors that warmly portray her deep connection to the melting pot of inner-city cultures and populations.

Kristin Reed’s artworks reflect sacred geometries overlaying industrial landscape in Smokestacks and Windmills, painted in acrylic on wood panel, reflecting a desire to express the interconnectedness of all things, sending healing energy to our struggling planet.

Barbara Griffiths’ close observations of Zoom participants in Gallery View, painted in acrylic on paper, stake out an uneasy ethical position somewhere between street sketching and voyeurism. They occupy the uncanny valley between our private and public faces.

Deborah Ugoretz’s enigmatic gouache paintings, The Way Beaten and The Way Beaten 2, embrace the familiar paths we choose and the mysteries of where they may lead us, into the woods or out, as our choices guide us.

Pamela Casper’s Entangled, painted in oil and acrylic, reveals a subterranean world where tree roots connect with fungus mycelium, inviting us into a hidden world illuminated by vivid color and eccentric, undulating forms that take on a life of their own.

Robin Feld’s wonderfully chaotic Rust Net captures us in a tangled web of lines that become mass and movement simultaneously. Painted in oils, Feld wraps us in her experience of the landscape as both internal and external through calligraphic brushstrokes.

Eileen Hoffman’s The Rapunzel Stories: Knock the Tower Down, made of intricately patterned Dura-lar strips stitched together with chenille stems, politicizes the archetypal story of Rapunzel, offering an exit from the castle of her imprisonment.

Roni Sherman Ramos’ oil painting, A Night in the Wood, invites us to reach beyond line into an amalgamated relationship of color and shape, fused together in a complex process of construction and reconstruction.

Sandra Taggart’s Sheep, created with Flashe, gel pen and glitter, plunge us into primordial darkness. The ethereal ghost-like images of sheep in the night adds an uncanny quality as we, the observers, are observed.

Lucy Wilner’s artworks, Common Ground and The Built Environment, meticulously painted in acrylic paint, unfold multi-dimensional and symbolic layers of meaning inspired by charts, diagrams, infographics and the natural world, merging science and dream spaces in a complex narrative of environmental connection and interdependence.

United in their commonalities and strengthened by their differences, The Brooklyn Crit Group offers a banquet of complex thought and ideation, reflecting on their times, their desires and their passion for art as a medium of expression.