Kada Gallery
Kada-ring to Some Great Art
Northwestern Pennsylvania Artists Association
Exhibit
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Opening Night Review
As with summer’s gardens being harvested, the local art scene is being reaped as well–as evidenced by the current exhibit at Erie’s Kada Gallery & Frame Shop.
Featuring the artwork of the Northwestern Pennsylvania Artists Association, the show, which opened August 4th, contains approximately 200 creations that lined the walls, topped the counters and occupied space on the floor. The show’s debut was well-attended by art devotees–and no doubt”the artists themselves.
Paasle Helminski’s Ghost Warrior, is an approximately six-inch high mixed-media creation, a yarn-wrapped Christo-like creation that resembles for the kinder in us all an amorphous Marvel Universe super hero/villain. Another small scale creation is For the Love of Sunflowers, by Barbara Yearce, a tiny 4×5 glass beads work on a fiberglass screen that depicts a field with sunflowers and an imaginative multi-colored skyline.
Brett Hines’ Puzzle is an assemblage of paper cutouts of different styles of architecture all at different angles within the picture frame. SloFlow by Greg Navratil (above) is a bright abstract acrylic piece constituted of smallish amoeba-like paint strokes that may portray an autumn-like pastoral scene that took patience to create with its approximate 4’x3′ size.
Quizzical but cute is Mike Tkach’s The Misfit, (above) that shows a shirtless man wearing a yellow duck(?) head; behind him nostalgic 1950’s-era wallpaper showcasing farm life: chickens, geese, cows, windmills. Lighthouse by Julia Ennis portrays is a surrealistic scene with nary a lighthouse; instead it depicts a two-story home on stilts awash in pink-tipped whitecaps.
Op Art Yellow, Green by Carl Sundberg is a trippy silkscreen consisting of diamond corners that guide the eye toward its center where they convene a vertical strip at its center, while Soul Tide by Steve Mike is an ink on paper artwork, a spectrum of bright globules, an abstract Peter Maxlike work that at its center is a quasar-like light.
Clay Torso by Mike Prather depicts a sullen man of ceramic with a softball-size hole through his chest. Heartbreak personified? Meanwhile Stephanie Wood’s acrylic and colored pencil creation, Quorum, is a
pondscape painting that recall Monet’s water lilies studies.
Something for everyone, the Kada exhibit displays the talent and imagination of our homegrown artist
Experience the harvest for yourself.
—GG
The Northwestern Pennsylvania Artists Association exhibit continues into September; call for dates. Kada Gallery & Frame Shop, 2632 W. 8th St., Erie.
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