Nathalie Guarracino

PRESS RELEASE

Nathalie Guarracino, Equilibrium
New Paintings
July 18 – August 18, 2008
Opening reception with the artist: Friday July 18, 6-8pm
Gallery Hours: Thu to Sat 11am- 5pm or by appointment

CHICAGO – a2c gallery will show new paintings by Nathalie Guarracino, July 18 through August 18, 2008. Nathalie Guarracino, a contemporary abstract artist from New York City is now represented by a2c gallery in Chicago. Equilibrium is Guarracino’s debut solo exhibition.

The paintings in the Equilibrium exhibition reflect the artist’s quest for harmony amidst two divergent existences: her studio in New York City, a place roaring with an industrial and mechanical energy, and the quiet Cevennes Mountains of southern France where she draws upon fond childhood memories. Guarracino searches for balance where light cohabits with dark, smooth with rough, energetic with still. The fusion of these two extreme worlds separated by time, space, and essence is the basis of these paintings. The paintings merge intensely contrasting forms and emotions into a balanced and harmonized equilibrium where differences reconcile.

Guarracino’s paintings are emotional reactions generated by the surrounding landscape. They carry the visual impact created by the aesthetic of lost details: the texture of a one-inch night butterfly wing, a stain of rust from a New York City street man-hole, the geological meanders of a rock from the Cevennes Mountains of southern France.

The combination of these different textures, colors, and mark makings captives her interest: “From nature to culture, from the kinetic and gestural to the static and controlled, from the light to the dark, I look to unite by dividing and to harmonize by setting up tensions.”

Guarracino will be present at the opening reception on Friday, July 18, from 6pm to 8pm.

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