“Ready, Set, Go!” Group Art Show at Romany Kramoris Gallery

[caption id="attachment_64408" align="alignright" width="469"] Christopher Engel, Shine On. 45 x 60. Mixed media on paper.[/caption]

Romany Kramoris Gallery will present “Ready, Set, Go!” a group exhibition featuring the works of six local artists. The exhibit is on view from May 25 through June 15, with a reception for the artists on Saturday, May 27 from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Featured artists will include Christopher Engel, Kelly Nelson, Alan Nevins, Lynn Matsuoka, Isabel Pavão, and Ghilia Lipman-Wulf.

Mr. Engel, a Sag Harbor based artist, presents faces, figures and abstracts that invite the viewer to enter their subconscious and allow his images to reveal themselves to their conscious mind. Continuing to embrace his Jungian philosophy, Mr. Engel incorporates archetypal images of the collective unconscious via the use of mythical, mystical and dreamlike images in his figures and faces. Ms. Nelson has wanted to spend more time painting throughout most of her life. Now at home in Shelter Island, she enjoys branching out and finding more time to paint. A master photographer, Mr. Nevins has increasingly imposed or coaxed his personal vision out of nature. “He treats photography like going to the beach. It’s not enough just to be there, and take a photo, but back in his studio he has to make waves and splash around,” Romany Kramoris said. Those unfamiliar with Mr. Nevins’ work will see a master’s personal vision bring something genuinely new to an ancient theme.

Blessed with a gift of documentary story telling fused with a rare visual craft, Ms. Matsuoka’s art conjures up the poetic imagery of birds in flight and horses gliding over the earth. Her work has been featured in over 40 international solo shows. Ms. Pavão’s “Impressions Series” represents a phase of her work since 2014 and integrates as usual, intimations of past work, enduring patterns of inner experience and conceptual processes as a continuous work in progress being a reflection on the “act of painting.” Ms. Lipman-Wulf is an artist and writer living in Sag Harbor. Considered a neo-Expressionist, her work is mostly semi-abstract, but she is widely known for botanicals as well.

The Romany Kramoris Gallery is open 7 days a week from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., and located at 41 Main Street in Sag Harbor. For more information, please call (631) 725-2499 or visit kramorisgallery.com.

[caption id="attachment_64405" align="alignnone" width="800"] Lynn Matsuoka, Body of Flight. 20 x 33. Oil on handmade paper.[/caption]