Carved in Stone | Painted with Light
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
CARVED IN STONE | PAINTED WITH LIGHT
Exhibit Dates:January 21, 2020 – April 4, 2020
Meet the Artists Reception: Wednesday, February 5, 5-8pm
1111 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington DC 20004
Featured Artists: David Therriault, and Carolyn Goodridge & Hubert Jackson
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David Therriault’s sculptures use reclaimed stone from residential and commercial properties. These stones were appropriated from nature and asked to change. They were ripped, chopped, moved, and piled for consumption. Therriault attempts to bring these stones back to nature, where they want to be. From the stone, the sand turns into glass, the iron to liquid. It all returns to the stone they began with and all form the silent whisper of a soul unchangeable. The natural progression of Therriault’s transition from landscaper into a sculptor, was inspired by Japanese landscapes.
Crown Dancer, Circle in Limestone, and Kachina, by David Therriault
Carolyn Goodridge’s abstracted landscapes are inspired from music and color through an historical approach, which she calls Visual Songs. To Goodridge, the radiance of nature is audible as well as visual. The paintings are emotional attunements to nature’s elements: sun’s fire, the wind, water, and Mother Earth. Each work whispers a glimpse of a relentlessly churning life. Additionally, her work is a marriage of Eastern philosophy and Western science. She accomplishes her paintings with a patient process of orchestrating colors, mixing finely ground raw pigments with melted beeswax in the ancient process of encaustic.
Justice II-The Yang of Isfet, Greatness I-Centering in the Truth, and Spirit II-Expression of Light by Carolyn Goodridge
Hubert Jackson arrived in Washington, DC in 1965 to begin his teaching career at Wilson High School, Aretha Franklin was beginning her rise to international stardom. Learning that the Aretha Franklin Trio was going to perform at the Bohemian Caverns on U Street in October of 1966, he went there to catch one of her show. Well, they were able to squeeze him in at a little table right beside the piano at nearly arm’s length from Aretha herself! Leaving a memorable impression.Hubert creates abstract and historical works, wherein he incorporates organic and found materials on the canvas or panel that are relics from the places that are the subjects of his work. Known for his “Spirits of the Battleground” series, Jackson collected pieces from specific Civil War sites in Virginia tointegrate into his paintings. These works evoke “the spirits of those who have come and gone but remain anonymous and unaccounted for through war, slavery, poverty or the passage of time.”
I Love You Madly, NASA Heroes and Sheroes, and Aretha at Bohemian Caverns by Hubert Jackson
1111 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, WDC 20004
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday 8am-7pm, Sat. 8am-4pm.
On Sat., enter on 12th St. NW please knock & guard will let you in.
For more information: Margery Goldberg, 202-783-2963 or margery@zenithgallery.com
Celebrating 41 years in the nation's capital, Zenith is recognized for its unique mix of contemporary art in a wide variety of media, style and subject. The gallery provides high-quality acquisition, art consulting, commissioning, appraisal and framing services, through its gallery/salon/ sculpture garden off 16th Street at 1429 Iris St NW, WDC 20012. Zenith also curates rotating exhibits at the Eleven-Eleven Sculpture Space at 1111 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, WDC 20004.
