‘Otherworldliness of the Real’

Posted 8/21/12

NARROWSBURG, NY — “The Otherworldliness of the Real,” an exhibit of paintings and collages by Linda Sokolowski, opens with a reception on Friday, September 4 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Delaware …

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‘Otherworldliness of the Real’

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NARROWSBURG, NY — “The Otherworldliness of the Real,” an exhibit of paintings and collages by Linda Sokolowski, opens with a reception on Friday, September 4 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Delaware Arts Center’s Alliance Gallery. The exhibit will be on view through October 3.

Sokolowski’s current work includes oil paintings and monotype with collage, as well as frottage, the technique or process of taking a rubbing from an uneven surface to form the basis of a work of art. The works depict rock formations, mountains, and canyons of the American Southwest and Peru. “These sites have the power to provide a substantial future of studio work for me, often surpassing the familiar green forests and the seas of our eastern states.”

“As a child, I sought out ‘pretend homes’ en plein air: my father’s Concord grape arbor and the blanketed reading underneath a card table on my parents’ vast open porch. As I grew, I still craved exploring abandoned houses and lying in grass tall enough to privately retain my thinking for long stretches,” said Sokolowski. “And soon there were the ruins of Rome and the cathedral-like spaces under bridges. These spaces were familiar, welcoming, uninhabited, yet had once been used by the ancients. So, when I found myself surrounded by the monumental majesty of the mountainous southwest with its Native American architectural cliff dwellings, there was little left to do but head to the studio.”

Sokolowski’s paintings and works on paper have been shown primarily in New York City through Kraushaar Galleries, where she presented 10 solo shows in the 33 years she was represented by that gallery. In 2007, her landscape retrospective, titled “The Earth’s Stage,” was mounted at the Roberson Museum and Science Center in Binghamton.

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