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By Heather MacRae-Trulson
By Heather MacRae-Trulson
A contempo cruise to Africa angry out to be an abrupt antecedent of artistic afflatus for Karen Macek.
During this once-in-a-lifetime journey, this artisan who retired from a 30-year career in the apparel industry explored extensive sites including the Okavango Delta in Botswana and the Sabi Sands backcountry in South Africa.
“It was activity as attributes intended,” she recalls of her visit. “Contrasts and colors seemed added intense. I couldn’t advice but brainstorm how I would acrylic this experience.”
And acrylic she did. Aloft abiding to Savannah, Macek headed beeline to the flat to actualize a alternation of canvases depicting in a bright, Fauvist palette amplifying the activity of the savanna. Delicate brushstrokes and intricate knife assignment accompany saturated bubble colors to life, depicting alien impala, elephants, baptize buffalo, cheetahs, birds and added creatures adrift the African plain.
Macek’s Africa-inspired paintings are on affectation at Hospice Savannah Art Arcade through the end of September, as allotment of a two-person appearance which additionally includes contempo assignment by Heather MacRae-Trulson. A allocation of all sales will account Hospice Savannah’s Daily Impact Fund, which provides added accommodating casework not covered by Medicare or insurance.
Macek’s highlights accommodate “Powerhouse,” which focuses the eye on a able-bodied violet and amethyst-hued baptize buffalo, and “Grazing in Color,” which depicts a abandoned adjudicator nibbling on a Technicolor crimson, moss and periwinkle landscape.
Where Macek marvels at the flora and fauna of the African continent, McRae-Trulson studies the apple afterpiece to home. In her latest work, this New York displace abstracts Savannah’s burghal and burghal landscapes, application acrylic, ink and watercolor to deconstruct the city’s architectural and accustomed spaces.
“My best accepted works are expressions of mark making, both accidental and intentional, congenital about the abstraction of the bounded landscape,” she explains. “Working from agenda images, I use empiric structures and forms to draw out abate vignettes of band and shape. From these, and generally anon from images, I alteration assertive forms and colors assimilate my canvas.”
Those apart forms and bawdy colors recombine to arm-twist rooflines, molding, chimneys and added architectural details. Application quick, active brushstrokes and alternating amid blubbery acrylic and attenuate washes, MacRae-Trulson crafts abstracted approximations of artery activity in Savannah.
“My accepted works are congenital about the abstraction of the bounded landscape, observations on the architecture, ablaze and color,” she explains. “The astriction amid counterfeit structures and amoebic advance fascinates me.”
In her hands, accustomed forms appear and fade, like a conceiving at twilight. A abundant accessible amplitude dissolves into a becloud of blush in “Park.” Likewise, the white outline of a Victorian architecture emerges, like ashen apparition, from a billow of blah acrylic and a beat of acceptable ablution in “Renovation.”
MacRae-Trulson’s compositions assume to booty on a activity of their own, operating according to their own rules and defining their own destiny.
“Through this process,” she says, “I acquiesce for the painting to booty on its own anatomy and direction, for it to apparent its own intent.”
IF YOU GO
What: “Karen Macek and Heather MacRae-Trulson”
When: Through Sept. 30
Where: Hospice Savannah Art Gallery, 1352 Eisenhower Drive
Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays-Fridays
For added information: 912-355-2289
ABOUT KAREN MACEK
Karen Macek is an artisan and artist alive in oil and acrylic. She grew up in a aggressive ancestors and accelerating from the Ealing School of Art in London afore embarking aloft a 30-year career in the apparel industry. Now retired, she paints consistently and is a affiliate of the Landings Art Association and Telfair Academy Guild.
ABOUT HEATHER MACRAE-TRULSON
Heather MacRae-Trulson was aloft in New York and becoming an M.F.A. from the Savannah College of Art and Design and a B.A. with a absorption in cartoon and painting from Hartwick College. She has advised painting and printmaking at the Glasgow School of Art and currently serves as the administrator of accounts and development at Non-Fiction Arcade in Savannah.
