An opening reception for In Love with Color, Friday evening from 5:30 to 7 p.m., marks the beginning of the 2010-2011 season at Levy Gallery at the Buckman Arts Center. Paintings by Jeanne Seagle and glasswork by Lisa Allen will be on display there until September 10th.
"The colors are unusual colors, not exactly realistic in nature, but I like to play around in my pictures," says Seagle. "I think that's prerogative of the artist, instead of just being a recorder. To take what we see and use that as inspiration instead of just copying. I like to see artists who have their own personal interpretation."
"It's hard for me to distinguish between [crafts and fine arts.] When I feel creatively stuck, I can do production work because I've done so much of it that it's almost meditative for me. But when I feel a creative spark to make something original, then it's nice to be able to pull away from the monotony of production work. I don't know that I could just do one or the other."
Levy Gallery is free and open to the public, Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. or by appointment.
Levy Gallery at the Buckman Arts Center, 60 Perkins Ext., 537-1483, www.stmarysschool.org/thebuckman
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