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Art Review: ‘Natural Selection’ spotlights 3 shows at JRB |
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Large abstract, expressionistic works with some figurative content pack a stronger punch than smaller, more naive oils in a show of paintings by Shelley Horton-Trippe at JRB Art at the Elms, 2810 N Walker.
The Horton-Trippe exhibition of oil paintings is one of three new shows, collectively titled the "Natural Selection Exhibit,” set to open from 1 to 10 p.m. today at JRB.
A bee in motion, a pink purse, a nebulous winged angelic figure, dripping paint, and a hand thrusting a blue coffeepot into the picture from one side, supply the dynamic elements in one large Horton-Trippe oil.
Horton-Trippe calls this ambiguous but hard-hitting and painterly, 90 inch-by-78 inch composition "Colleen and the Honeybee.”
Even more ambiguous and intriguing is "Flicker Lesson,” a 66-inch-by-72-inch oil by Horton-Trippe.
In "Flicker Lesson,” a hand seems to be offering a circular object, perhaps a mirror, water or the world, to the speckled bird of the title, in front of a wavy brown surface, such as the body of a guitar or the bark of a tree trunk.
Adding to the interest of the painting’s background is a girl or young woman, wearing a red sweater and polka-dot dress, with her back to us, and a vague apple tree that seems to float, uprooted, in front of the sky.
A sketchy reflection of the Eiffel Tower becomes a stand for a bunch of lush, heavily painted blossoms, also reflected in the river, in a richer-hued, more romantic oil that Horton-Trippe calls "Bouquet in the Seine.”
An oil of a "Passion Flower” on a green stalk by Horton-Trippe has some of the stylized simplicity of a work by Marsden Hartley, while pure paint becomes flowers in a vase at the "End of August” in a smaller work.
Horton-Trippe, a 30-year resident of Santa Fe, N.M., was born in Oklahoma City and got her master of fine arts degree at the University of Oklahoma.
Joe Andoe will be represented at JRB by several videos he has made of Oklahoma that will be shown throughout the exhibit.
Known for his "simple and elegant images of animals and landscapes,” a gallery spokesman said, Andoe is a Tulsa native who earned his masters at OU, and has lived in New York City since 1985.
Marko Kratohvil is showing several stark, streamlined, steel and polyester resin sculpures with a strong sense of gestural motion and interaction between abstract forces in JRB’s north gallery.
A Belgrade native and member of the Royal Academy of British Sculptors in London who recently moved to Oklahoma City, Kratohvil also is showing a group of related ink and acrylic paintings on paper.
The Horton-Trippe paintings, Kratohvil’s sculpture and Andoe’s videos will be available through Jan. 30 at JRB, during the run of the umbrella "Natural Selection Exhibit.”
...John Brandenburg
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© Joy Reed Belt 2010
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