Marie Van Elder
Current Exhibitions
OHANLON GALLERY
SUMMeR DaYS
Paintings by Marie Van Elder
October 7 - October 30, 2008
First Tuesday Opening Reception, October 7, 6 to 8 p.m.
On Tuesday, October 7, from 6 to 8 p.m., O’Hanlon Center for the Arts will present an Open House and Reception for October’s show “SUMMeR DaYS,” a one woman show by Mill Valley-based painter Marie Van Elder. The show runs through October 30, 2008. Refreshments will be served.
Several large oil paintings (up to 6x7 feet) in the show “SUMMeR DaYS” feature heroic-sized teenage girls engaged in what seems to be ordinary summer outdoor activities. However, the artist endows them with a curious enigmatic otherness and almost mythological significance, making the paintings oscillate between kitschy girly fantasy and sexual innuendoes and isolating the subjects in a world on their own, one that responds to their own culture and hidden rituals.
With an undertone of longing and apprehension, the paintings hint on the invisible dark corners of human nature and often reference traditional European paintings.
The gallery exhibit will include a series of intimate, fast and fluid gouaches and collages on paper.
Marie Van Elder was born in Belgium, received a Master of Fine Arts from California College of the Arts and lives and works in Mill Valley with her two teenage daughters.
The opening show on October 7 is part of the Mill Valley Art Commission’s monthly Gallery Walk, First Tuesday. The event is free of charge and open to all ages. Artwork on display is available for purchase.
Also on Exhibit:
“One of a Kind: Works by O'Hanlon's Monthly Monoprinting Class”
Cayen Robertson
O’Hanlon Center for the Arts’ Loft Gallery will present “One of a Kind: Works from O’Hanlon’s Monthly Monoprinting Class.” This group show represents a year’s worth of explorations with monoprinting, a simple yet beautiful and variable form of printing on paper. The class is held the first Sunday of each month at O’Hanlon Center for the Arts. The Loft Gallery is adjacent to the O’Hanlon Center Gallery on the Center grounds.
O’Hanlon Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday.