Courtney Applequist and Sheila Blake - New Members Show
February 5 - March 1, 2020
Reception and artists' talk: Saturday February 8, 5 - 8 pm
My work draws inspiration from the seen world. I seek the use of found geometries and colors to depict the feeling of a moment, finding a degree of tension: beauty and dissonance. I work primarily in oil paint, interjecting charcoal, pastel and other media as the moment requires. The thoughts I start with are nothing more than a beginning, and I am driven to a new place as the piece unfolds.
Sheila Blake
I’ve been a painter all my life. Creating the illusion of space and light with paint is what thrilled me from the beginning, and it thrills me now. I went to Cooper Union in New York, lived in California, then moved to Durham, where I taught art at Duke University. After moving here I taught at the Corcoran. Now I have a studio in Takoma Park, and keep the demands of life to a minimum so I can paint full time, every day. There’s so much in these paintings: the light, the mood. The subterranean menace.
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