Sweet William
by Amy Talluto

Happy MLK Monday!
Last week Jen introduced you to the work of artist Amy Talluto. Amy happens to have a solo show, The Devil's Dream, up this very moment at Packer Schopf Gallery in Chicago.

In The Devil's Dream, Talluto's investigates the impact of nature, and natural space on the mind. Individual works describe scenes that are bright, lush and flowering, or sometimes dissonant, murky and foreboding. Tree branches twist and writhe, color turns acidic, and sky flattens to meet form. Contrasting areas of dense hyper-detail with areas of breathe-ability, Talluto wrangles anxiety with visual relief. Snippets of the saturated under-painting peak out and are left raw. Heavily painted areas of density and deformity creep in, creating a final puzzle-locking composition that confuses the appearance of flatness and space, invented and natural color, and ugliness and beauty.

See installation images from the show here

Packer Schopf Gallery
Chicago, IL
Jan 9 - Feb 14, 2009

Amy's edition print:
Hermaphrodite
Amy's site