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March Issue 2007
Fountainside Gallery in Wilmington, NC, Offers Works by Tami Cardnella
Fountainside
Gallery in Wilmington, NC, will present the exhibit, Feast
Your Eyes, featuring works by Tami Cardnella that will tantalize
all your senses. The exhibit will be on view from Mar. 29 through
Apr. 15, 2007.
The 15 still life oil paintings present in the exhibit are a sensuous spotlight on both the artist and the public's love of food. Fruits, vegetables, dishes of lobsters and crabs, wine bottles and wooden crates, peanut butter and jelly, even oysters on the half shell are all artistic inspiration to an artist who is also a gourmet cook. Cardnella quips, "How many artists get to eat their painting arrangements?"
While she has fun with this particular subject, Cardnella is quite serious about her art. She has been painting for 23 years, studied with Martin Ahrens, her mentor and friend who critiques her work, and with Albert Handell, nationally known workshop instructor. Cardnella's major influences in painting are California Impressionist Edgar Payne and contemporaries Daniel Greene and Dan Sprick.
Both studio and plein-aire painting are employed by Cardnella who also teaches around a dozen students in her studio. Story-telling is her focus and the thing she hopes the viewer takes away with them. Food is not the only subject for painting for Cardnella who just returned from a image-gathering sojourn in France; her paintings from that trip will constitute a future exhibit.
Philosophically, Cardnella believes that an artist looks at the world differently, "The way swan's feathers glow in a hundred variations of white or how morning shadows slash across the walls of village streets are things to be noticed, and often, as a painter I can show someone on canvas the things they missed."
Living in coastal South Carolina, Cardnella draws innumerable subjects from her surroundings, telling the stories the land offers her. Primarily self-taught, her wonderful representational style has been featured at such prestigious shows as the Telfair Museum's Art Fair, Lowe Art Museum's Beaux Arts, Boca Raton Museum Art Festival and the Coconut Grove Arts Festival.
For further information check our NC Commercial Gallery listings, call the gallery at 910/256-9956 or visit (www.fountainsidegallery.com).
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