Interruption - Christopher Gay

EXHIBITION DATES:
Thursday, April 7 - Friday, April 29, 2005

OPENING RECEPTION:
Thursday, April 7, 2005, 8pm - 10pm

While in any crowded area you may find yourself surrounded by several
conversations. Struggling to follow a specific story and to generate meaning
with only limited information, you make associations and create connections.
Local painter, Christopher Gay has created a series of new works that invite
the viewer to reflect on this process.

Teeming with rich colors, his compositions draw attention to the juncture
between the figure and foreground, juxtaposing urban and natural landscapes
with the human form.  They are complex in terms of technique, and layered in
terms of internal messages and narrative. The subjects in each of his
paintings, just like fragmented pieces of a conversation, dissolve and
compete with each other.

Gay loosens the representational quality of the work by painting in sessions
that start creatively and end destructively. He produces images on multiple
canvases and then pieces them together.  Separately, the images convey their
own conventional meanings; taken together, they elicit new purpose and
remain open to individual interpretation.