Opening on September 6, 2007, the Brenda Taylor Gallery is pleased to announce a group exhibition featuring Vadim Katznelson, Kathleen Kucka, Mary Ehrin, and Peter Fox. Each artist uses conventional mediums including paint, canvas, and found objects to create unique aesthetics of texture, form, and color.

Vadim Katznelson is a Russian born artist whose heavily impastoed work are as much paintings as they are wall-mounted sculptural abstractions. With a background in chemistry and art restoration, Katznelson has developed a unique method of manipulating acrylic resin into forms that are reminiscent of rows of Chrysanthemum flowers or exotic sea corals.

Kathleen Kucka’s paintings consist of overlapping layers of poured acrylic paint layered between translucent latex skins. The artist has formed a complex grid system of layering dried paint skins that appear to circle and weave within each other creating an illusion of deep space within a two-dimensional work on canvas. Throughout this process, the artist has made carefully thought out decisions on color choice and compositional layout that serve to playfully undermine and obscure the initial grid structure.

Mary Ehrin creates paintings, sculptures and other works emphasizing the sensual and the sublime. Her work is often a comment on the physicality of the exotic materials she uses. Objects such as Ostrich feathers, gold, silk, and velvet are often juxtaposed with works of oil and acrylic paints to create a body of work that examines both abstract and figurative ideas through the tactile qualities of her materials.

Peter Fox’s paintings examine the relationship between color form and texture. Using luminously colored paint, the artist creates richly layered works that rely on the gravitational weight of a drop of paint in forming loose ribbons and of paint that curl and twist. His work inhabits the tensions engendered between method and chaos, lucidity and opacity, intention and the deferral of intention.

Vadim Katznelson is a recipient of a 2006 Pollock/Krasner Foundation grant and a 2005 Robert M. MacNamara Foundation grant. He has been exhibited at the Milwaukee art Museum and The Art Institute of Chicago Gallery. Kathleen Kucka’s work is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Birmingham Museum of Art , and The Norton Museum of Art. Mary Ehrin is currently the subject of a one person exhibition at The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art which will run through September 1st 2007. She was named one of the best painters in American graduate schools by Lisa Dennison, Chief Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, in a national competition by The Open Studios Press (2002). Peter Fox has been included in exhibitions at Pierogi, Roebling Hall, Postmasters, Esso Gallery, and White Box Annex in New York, Dust Gallery (Las Vegas), Galleria Milano (Milan), Galleria Martano (Turin) and Magazzino d’Arte Moderna in Rome.