As there are no forests in Venice, the Venetian dialect phrase for “foreigner” is “foresti” or “someone from the forest”. I Foresti, a group exhibition at Castello 925, plays on that vernacular expression as these American artists are not only foreigners to Venice but are inspired by the materials and rich textures of the forest.
I FORESTI
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Anne Leith is a painter of places, both observed and oneiric. The landscape is integral to her practice and the personal immersion into a greater whole is her over-arching aesthetic.
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Robin McClintock, a native New Yorker, who moved to rural West Virginia half-way through her career, conjures from that dichotomy intricate, elegant yet heavily wrought works on paper that weave the chaos of spatial memory, vestigial industrial architecture, and nature into an uncanny personal order.
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Martin Weinstein builds layers of perception from painted acrylic layers with each combining to describe a whole. These paintings, rooted in the landscape tradition, represent perpetually shifting perceptions that evolve into personal records of space, being and memory.
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In her use of humble materials, Millicent Young castes lyrical abstractions as timeless artifacts. With wood, horsehair and repurposed metal, Young conveys the story of the human journey from the known to the unknown.