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The exhibition, Mothers of Abstraction, will be on display October 22 through November 20, 2010.

Gallery C is located at 3532 Wade Avenue in the Ridgewood Shopping Center and is easy to find for both locals and out-of-towners. We are across the street from Meredith College and in the same shopping center as Whole Foods. Parking in the Ridgewood Shopping Center parking lot is free, well-lit, safe and very convenient to the gallery.

Diane Patton's recent work involves abstracting images collected during her hikes on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Building her paintings by inviting organic forms and shapes, Patton uses layer after layer of opaque and transparent paint to create her vibrant canvases. Insistent that the painting must be free to wander, Patton likes her paintings to show the mark of the hand, a gouged line, the scratched mark, the brush stroke, always exploring energy and light. Patton's paintings are a fine line between intent and exploration; never fully planned out at their inception, but informed by years of her experience as an artist. Working from memory allows Patton to move past mere depiction to the conception of original works that combine vision, experience and creativity.

Echoing the birth of planets and capturing the life inside them, Sally Resnik Rockriver generates chemical reactions in blown glass and ceramics. While she is making her blown glass, Rockriver uses ceramic glazes and glass rocks to grow geolocial worlds on the interior of the hot glass vessel. These moments of chemical reaction become imaginary planets and frozen thermal formations.

Sally Resnik Rockriver has redefined the aesthetic parameters of her medium by allowing geological laws to determine the content of her work. Rockriver arrives at a new form that she refers to as Geochemical Sculpture, in which compositions become planetary formations. She creates a narrative landscape by combining her multiple approaches: glass columns with a crystalline core, calcite cave formations, crystal glazed slabs, salt-blown spheres, ceramic blown glass vessels, and sandcast rocks. Exploring Ms. Rockriver’s works is like visiting another world where new geological formations are revealed. We can enter the high temperature moment at which these phenomena were created and marvel at the explosive interior of a crystalline birth.

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