Exhibit of three painters opens in the Wheaton Art Gallery
Tuesday, October 1999
Works by three artists fascinated with the properties of paint and the painting process form the new exhibit, "Image into Process/Process into Image: New Works by Kathleen A. Soles, Patty Stone and Dorothea Van Camp," which will be on display in the Wheaton Art Gallery from Wednesday, Oct. 13 through Thursday, Nov. 11.
The gallery, which is free and open Monday through Saturday from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m., is located in the Watson Fine Arts Center.
Each of the three painters featured in this exhibition involve themselves with the materiality of paint, and through process discover or direct the final image. Here, meanings do not reside in a specific story; rather, multi-layered and nuanced meanings are achieved through a slow unfolding of visual experience.
Patty Stone’s paintings deal with the physical, suggesting the weight and monumentality of architecture experienced over centuries of use, neglect and rediscovery. Her works have been shown in numerous solo exhibitions in New England and in New York City. An assistant professor of art at Wheaton, Stone has also taught art at the Rhode Island School of Design, the DeCordova Museum School of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Massachusetts College of Art.
Kathleen A. Soles’ paintings and drawings explore contradictions. In her current work, Soles investigates such notions as strength and fragility, movement and stasis, and solid and void. Her work has been exhibited in numerous exhibitions throughout the Northeast. Soles has won grants from the MIT Council for the Arts and the St. Botolph Club Foundation, and her works are included in several public collections.
Dorothea Van Camp’s work borrows heavily from printmaking in its use of layering, repeated shapes, overprinting and other techniques to suggest space and form. Her works have been included in several private collections as well as numerous exhibitions throughout New England, including the National Prize Show of the Cambridge Art Association, which was juried by Museum of Fine Arts director Malcolm Rogers.
For more information on this and other shows at the gallery during the 1999-00 academic year, visit: http://www2.wheatoncollege.edu/Academic/Watson/home.html.