SHEILA KERNAN: I Have Something to Say!

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Sheila Kernan, "I Have Something to Say!" 2019

Artist Conversations (and Painting Demo!) Saturday, November 23, 1 to 4 PM

If you missed the Opening Night of Sheila Kernan's "I Have Something to Say" join us this Saturday for an informal conversation with Sheila Kernan about her latest collection of work and what she has to say about it! Kernan will discuss her consistent attraction to architectural forms and the energy they emulate and how she employs a multi-dimensional use of pattern, vibrant colour and thick, impasto brush strokes to artfully build imaginary places and spaces inspired by travel, recollections and self-discovery. 

Sheila also promises to bring along an easel, paint palette and a work-in-progress canvas. See you at the gallery!

Representing Kernan’s signature style and pictorial descriptions of environment and conjured cities this assemblage of new works invites viewers to visually absorb what the artist has built into each distinctive piece with unspoken words. Kernan masterfully tells an exceptional story using the language of form, texture, light, pattern, depth and raw energy to entrance and engage. It is through the artist’s work that intrinsic emotions, memories and individual narratives develop before a viewer’s eyes. What it is that the work has to say becomes a wonderful collaboration between the artist and the viewer; a beautiful and complicated moment.

Consistently attracted to architectural forms and the energy they emulate, Kernan employs a multi-dimensional use of pattern, vibrant colour and thick, impasto brush strokes to artfully build imaginary places and spaces inspired by travel, recollections and self-discovery. The ambiguity and fictional roots of the artist’s vistas generate a gateway into a place that is at once a story woven in paint and the exploration of the viewer’s internal perspective.