Kim Cridler / David Kroll
In the Atrium: Carrie Marill
Kim Cridler / David Kroll
In the Atrium: Carrie Marill
Exhibition
January 10 – Februrary 25, 2023
Opening Reception with Kim Cridler
Saturday, January 14, 2023
12:00 – 3:00 pm
The works of Kim Cridler,David Kroll, and Carrie Marill join the natural world and human ornamentation, proposing three aesthetic iterations in which artwork and the organic life-force merge in emotion and contemplation. The three artists are nationally recognized, and are long-term favorites on Lisa Sette Gallery’s artist roster. A group show of their captivating paintings and sculptures will be exhibited in January and February, with an opening on January 14th from 12:00-3:00pm at Lisa Sette Gallery.
The meditative garden of organic and ornamental forms expands into three-dimensional space in Kim Cridler’s vessels. In large-scale, immaculately fabricated works, Cridler intertwines the human pursuits of containment and ornament with the often unpredictable patterns of organic generation. Constructed of woven steel rods, Cridler’s vessels are embellished with unexpected organic treasures: the enchanting forms of birds, leaves, and flowers glimmer around the edges. These treasures are fabricated with a jeweler’s precision, from brass and beeswax, silver and horsehair, and gleaming faceted stones. Cridler remarks, “My work and research is rooted in the belief that the forms, processes, and materials that give flesh to objects of utility and ornament are rich with content–the tension between structure and decoration, the intellectual and the physical, the cognitive and emotive.”
In the verdant paintings of David Kroll, the natural world is mediated through human made objects of beauty or meaning. Centrally located vessels, globes, or memento mori are portrayed with the same serene elegance as the ecosystems surrounding them, which take the form of vines, flowers, and striking ornamental birds or fish, each flickering anatomy captured in precise detail. Compositionally, Kroll’s oil on linen works resemble classical still-life paintings, yet the scenes he devises are cleverly surreal and alive with mysterious motion and potential. Kroll’s delicate and exquisitely painted flora and fauna exist in a lush and timeless dreamspace. The artist remarks: “I paint personal refuges and interior landscapes… I try to create a connection–however fleeting–between the viewer and the power of landscape, the web of life, the idea of nature itself.”
