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NORWAY – Two artists will be featured the month of June in the “Double Vision” exhibition at Matolcsy Art Center, 480 Main St.
The paintings and prints of artists Judy Schneider and Judson Pealer, who both work in abstract imagery, will be on display. The show explores their individual processes and how they relate to each other.
An opening reception will be 5 to 7 p.m. on Friday, June 3. The gallery will be open from noon to 3 p.m. Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, and the exhibition is free and open to the public.
Pealer has been a member of Western Maine Art Group since 2018. He went into art asking “What is this abstract art all about?” He said, “I have always had art supplies nearby and over the years entered local shows to see what would happen. Getting into a show is often tough because so many retirees now take up the brush because it is something they always wanted to do. Then there are those who always knew. There are so many talented folks around us, and I would rather collaborate rather than compete.”
He paints intuitively and is always trying to create something new. “I often paint with music on and I try to respond to where the painting wants to go. If I can pick up on that the painting will successfully go somewhere,” he said. “It is like dancing. I usually have the most basic idea when I start then we are off to the races.” Pealer lives in South Paris.
Schneider is a designer, painter and printmaker, living and working in Norway, and is a member of the Western Maine Art Group. The Maine landscape is a critical part of Schneider’s art, and she is interested in abstracted landscape painting as a way of mapping time in a non-linear fashion and reconsidering conventional modes of representation she continues to reevaluate or abandon pictorial narrative and focus on the structure of time.
“I investigate place and memory through the landscape,” she said. “My work is an exploration of place-making: land plus history plus culture. I am interested in the physical properties of a site and how they interface with the memories and feelings I have when I am there. I experiment with scale, value and texture associated with place and how my feelings about a particular location affect my use of these visual components. I am in pursuit of what is physically present, woven with memory, dreams and how the energy of ‘place’ is conveyed. Materials define space. Space combined with memory defines place.”
IMAGES: Top: “Evening Wandering,” by Judy Schneider; Below: “National Lobster Day,” By Judson Pealer. (Submitted images)
