Gallery Opening Reception: 3 PAINTERS

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For Immediate Release
ArtObjectGallery
592 North 5th San Jose CA 95112
408 288-9305 408 823-6450 c [email protected]
Gallery owner resolves to resume exhibits of local artists
in spite of brutal economy. Gallery more essential than ever
for Arts community
After hiatus ArtObjectGallery re-opens with first of three of exhibits slated for 2012
** 3 PAINTERS: Sukey Bryan, Mila Libman, Tim Ryan***
May 12 thru June 20, 2012. Reception for the artists: Saturday May 12th, 7 to 9 pm

Gallery owner and sculptor Ken Matsumoto has planned a series of new exhibits at the ArtObjectGallery. The gallery is located in the heart of historic Japantown San Jose and is one of only a few commercial galleries available to collectors and those interested in new works by local artists.
The first exhibit in the series is titled 3 PAINTERS. The landscape is the common thread that runs through these paintings, however they are not what one would call landscape painters.
Sukey Bryan’s paintings depict the various states of water from the rapidly flowing falls and rain to the quiet falling snow and the stillness of ice. In each piece her technique, color sense, and fidelity of rendering combine to create works that move between the representational and abstract, the recognizable to simply brushstrokes. In each case the paint is handled with confidence, economy and flair.
Mila Libman also uses water as subject for her large works on paper. Her perspective is of viewing the water and the reflection of the sky across an undulating surface of a Sierra Nevada lake. These amazing works are at once descriptions of movement and of visual movement itself. They focus your attention on the changes that exist on surface and one senses the volume of water just below. These are sensitive, finely crafted, nuanced works and Mila’s ability to find the colors, meld them, and reduce to the essential is beautiful in its simplicity.
Tim Ryan’s works are physical by virtue of the material he employs and nature of his process. His landscapes describe change and “accidental” nature of the physical environment. Tim seems to become part of this cycle of change as he lays down layer upon layer of paint and then grinds back into the surface exposing the previous paint layers. The history of change becomes visible. These are elemental works. They are physical but also delicate as colors peek from behind one another and lay over what went on before. It is like a lacework of color-laden cuts moving gently across the textured surface.
Sukey Bryan, BFA/English, Yale. MFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, 1990. Currently lives and works in Stanford, CA
Mila Libman, Born: Minsk, Belarus. Emigrated to US 1988. NY Studio School, 1995. MFA , Yale, 1997. Currently lives and works in San Jose, CA
Tim Ryan, BFA, University of Alaska. MA, Humboldt State University. MFA San Jose State University. Currently lives and works in San Jose, CA.

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