Like many tall trees in the winter landscape Neptune's elevated gallery walls reveal nests in January. "A Logic of Their Own Making" Neptune's striking new exhibit features artist Carol Barsha, whose capable hand first and foremost celebrates the power of drawing. Working with oil, charcoal and ink, the gallery is filled with large powerful images of bird nests on paper.
Accompanying the nests is a smaller investigation of paintings featuring coiled paper tape rolls. The two subjects mirror each other: nature coils branches and we logically gather a stream of paper by rolling it into a coil. The coiling of these different minor elements eventually result in a larger, more substantial object. The "nest" implies safety, comfort and we become attracted psychologically to its power to protect or to keep us intact. Both subjects reveal the artist's love of texture and details, magnifying for us the rhythm of repeat curving forms in vivid color or in black and white.
Barsha received her MFA in painting in the 1970's from the Boston University School for the Arts and studied under Philip Guston and James Weeks. She has exhibited her work consistently throughout the past thirty years in Boston, New York and the DC area including solo exhibitions with The Art Institute of Boston, the Bronx Museum of the Arts and locally with the former Gallery K in Dupont Circle. Her work was included in the 2006 Whitney Biennial through a project originally conceived by Mark DiSuvero. "A Logic of Their Own Making" is Carol Barsha's first solo exhibit with Neptune.
Carol Barsha "A Logic of Their Own Making"
January 7 - 31, 2009
Reception for the artist: Saturday, January 10th, 7 PM
Open for the Bethesda Art Walk, Friday, January 9th, 6-9 PM
Artist's Talk: Saturday, January 17th, 2 PM
Current hours:Fridays and Saturdays from 12-5 PM or by appoinment
To view images from the exhibit, click on ARTISTS, Carol Barsha.
A full color catalogue accompanies this exhibit.