PAinT’s “A Woman’s Eye “ and Churchill High School’s “Student Art Competition”

The Behnkes Nurseries Company and Potomac Artists in Touch
Invite you
To An Art Extravaganza
January 10 to February 8, 2009

Two weeks of Students Art from the Churchill High School
Then…  PAinT’s
“A Woman’s Eye”
January 24 though February 8, 2009
PAinT members will judge student’s artwork and present awards at the
Award Night Reception
January 24, 2009
6 till 9PM
At Behnkes 9545 River Road in Potomac

Potomacartist.org

Felisa Federman, a graduate from the National Fine Arts Academy in Buenos Aires and an Argentinean national, is a multifaceted painter, fiber and assemblage artist who continually reinvents herself. Using fabric –Felisa’s initial technique– to create dimensional illusions, she sculpts the surface by layering, rolling, singing, pleating, and tearing pieces of cloth, yarn and burlap. Up close, textures, cavities, voids, and protrusions denote the lifelike qualities of mounds, caves and valleys found in the natural global landscape. Felisa’s Wind and Water series comprises hard, delineated shapes in black seeming to be silhouettes of limbs, fish, birds and vegetation filled in overlays of translucent, bright, rich color. Her motive or question is the accelerating decrease of animal species, and the accelerating effects of climate change. We might ask how we to cope with these changes creatively. These rhythmic shapes and creatures swim or fly frantically in a sea or sky of blues, oranges and reds with an occasional space of somberness alluding to a breath of fresh air. “Fish, depicts beings that are powerless in front of ecological damage infringing upon them”. In some, hard-edges and bold areas of color recede and swell with movement and volume as if following a costumed dance crew across the stage. However in others, the large spaces seem to crush the smaller ones, while whimsical, child-like shapes flutter to the surface for help through the chaos. By incorporating subjects of angst, powerlessness, oppression and hope, the message found in Felisa’s work becomes highly an ecological and conceptual one. Her current concern with the environment and recognition of her mother-country’s rapid industrialization and neglect of nature seeps through her art and sets the tone for the theme.