Luke DeLalio and Patricia Russac: LI Pulse VIP Artists for 2009
Reception Friday, Sept. 11th at 6:30pm
ART (that matters) is pleased to announce a new show celebrating the work of artists Luke DeLalio and Patricia Russac at Art (that matters) gallery in Oyster Bay. Mr. DeLalio and Ms. Russac have both been selected by Long Island Pulse Magazine as VIP Artists for 2009, which is a group of 30 local artists considered by the magazine, gallery owners and other artists to be the most compelling on Long Island.
The gallery space will be shared by the two artist, making this the first joint show offered by Art (that matters). Ms. Russac’s abstracted, swirling figures are well complemented by Mr. DeLalio’s bittersweet open ended visual narratives. The reception begins at 6:30pm and the exhibition will be on view through October.
Luke DeLalio’s art practice grew out of his career as a stage director, and this theatrical influence can be seen in the expressive characters, the skewed settings and implicit sense of narrative in his charcoal drawings, oil paintings and multimedia work. Mr. DeLalio is also accomplished at portraiture, albeit in a stylistically unusual manner, and the human face figures heavily in his practice. His work is privately collected, and recently he has been commissioned to create a large-scale abstract installation in a private residence in the Hamptons.
Patricia Russac is an award-winning artist from Oyster Bay. Her work, Through My Eyes, won the Award of Excellence at the 51st Annual Long Island Artist exhibition and The Three Graces won the same award in the national open competition at the Firehouse Plaza Art Gallery in New York. Ms. Russac uses the power of line and negative space to create the push and pull sensation in her drawings, prints, paintings and pastel works. In most of her work, the figure is the underlying theme; however, the seemingly abstract compositions create layers of mixed media and color to transform the image into intricate organic forms with a remarkable sense of movement that moves the viewer in and out of the spaces created by the network of line, color and shape.
- Luke DeLalio
- Luke DeLalio
- Patricia Russac
- Patricia Russac