| For more information about this article or gallery, please call the gallery phone number listed in the last line of the article, "For more info..." |
April Issue 2003
Daniel's in Newton, NC, Features Works by Johanna McCloskey
Even though she lives on the shores of Lake Norman, just outside of Charlotte, NC, the world of Johanna McCloskey revolves around a green sun. It's All About Color, the title of a 15-painting show, will feature the critically acclaimed McCloskey's lifelong obsession with color. The show, at Daniel's in Newton, NC, will run during the month of Apr., 2003.
A native of Breslau, Germany, McCloskey has made her home in Sherrills Ford since 1989. She received her BFA from Southampton, NY, and an MA in Fine Art from C.W. Post, Long Island University in New York. The Green Sun painting was reviewed by Helen Harrison for the New York Times in 1986, summarizing, "In what conventional landscape could we find a green sun floating in a dappled pink sky surrounded by dancing lines and confetti-like flecks of color?"
"Color is joy," says the grandmother of three, who enjoys stretching art's traditional boundaries. "The way I see color, I break all the rules of art." McCloskey once faced the sun with closed eyes, then painted the image she saw inside her eyelids. This led to the beginning of her abstractions and her thesis.
Some of the pieces McCloskey will display include: Afternoon Glow, an exaggeration of nature, containing extraordinary light; Farewell to Long Island, which features reflections off the Atlantic Ocean near the Shinnecock Inlet in Southampton, NY; Diatomes, which illustrates the minute particles that float in water over a dark purple base; and Oil Slick, a painting of pollution in the water. "Even pollution contains brilliant color," she says of the piece
McCloskey's art hangs in collections in New York, Connecticut, New Hampshire, California and Europe. Locally she has received honors and prizes for shows at the Hickory Museum of Art, Queens College, Charlotte Douglas Airport, Queens Gallery and Central Piedmont Community College.
For more information check
our NC Commercial Gallery listings or call the gallery at 828/464-7721.
Carolina Arts is
published monthly by Shoestring Publishing Company, a subsidiary
of PSMG, Inc.
Copyright© 2003 by PSMG, Inc., which published Charleston
Arts from July 1987 - Dec. 1994 and South Carolina Arts
from Jan. 1995 - Dec. 1996. It also publishes Carolina Arts
Online, Copyright© 2003 by PSMG, Inc. All rights reserved
by PSMG, Inc. or by the authors of articles. Reproduction or use
without written permission is strictly prohibited. Carolina
Arts is available throughout North & South Carolina.