DISTRIBUTION DATE: April 4, 2007 FOR RELEASE UPON RECEIPT
TEXTURES, A NEW ART EXHIBIT AT TIA
Textures is now on display in Tucson International Airport’s main Gallery. This unique show brings together paintings by Barbara Brandel and ceramics by Randy O’Brien.
Textile artist Brandel uses acrylic paint, pastel, oil-stick, pencil, and gesso on paper. Several of the paintings include stamps, buttons, or Mylar.
Brandel states her two dimensional mixed media paintings are a homage to the unknown makers (our ancestors) of textiles, utilitarian and ceremonial objects, and sculptures from many cultures and from thousands of year of art making. She portrays the innate power and beauty of objects made by hand, and acquaints the viewer with traditional cultures that used and still make and use handcrafted items in their lives. For more information on Brandel, visit her webpage http://artistsregister.com/artists/AZ90.
Ceramists O’Brien’s roughly textured platters and vessels are brightly colored using glazes that are a three dimensional surface. They add as much form to a piece as does the clay. O’Brien states he takes his inspiration from the natural world.
O’Brien began developing his current body of work in the year 2000. Inspired by the mineral formations, mudflats and lichens of southern Arizona he developed a three-dimensional glaze surface that mimics the aesthetic of a naturally occurring material. His glaze surface is composed mostly of volcanic ash and metallic oxides. For more information on O’Brien, visit his webpage http://dakotacom.net/~rdobrien.
This exhibit is a part of Tucson International Airport’s temporary art exhibit program. To learn more visit www.tucsonairport.org.
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