Where’s there?
Cherry Red Palette
The Other Side
Dream Crusher
Amber
Developing
Checkmate
Paperweight
By Tom Wachunas
“The
theme of “Are You There?” revolves around the idea of self-discovery amidst the
unknown and resisting external influences. The series features window-like
viewpoints, overlapping layers, and explosions of color, each representing the
myriad decisions we make in life. These layers symbolize the diverse aspects of
human existence: physical, energy, emotional, and mental, capturing the essence
of different periods in our lives in an abstract form.” -
Emily Orsich
EXHIBIT: ARE
YOU THERE? – recent paintings by Emily Orsich / at Strauss Studios Gallery
/ 236 Walnut Avenue NE, downtown Canton, OH / Through closing reception on
Friday Jan. 23, 2025, 6-9pm. /Viewing Hours: Mon-Fri 10am to 5pm, Sat.
12noon to 5pm/ 330-456-0300
Let’s away. To back then. To right now. To
not yet. Or maybe to a place, a state of being, wherein present moments, past memories,
and anticipated futures exist together all at once. Where tensions and
harmonies, confusions and clarities, are recognized, processed in the mind, and
expressed through the heart. Where we roll with the punches through all manner
of experienced affirmations, denials, peace, turmoil, despair, hope, agony, joy,
doubt, certainty, losing, searching, finding. In short, life.
Emily Orsich paints that.
Her exciting polychromatic compositions speak
– indeed sing - to the vicissitudes of being alive. Her paintings are symbolic,
metaphorical fusions, supple and intriguing, of organic and geometric
configurations, intertwined and traversing both physical and ethereal realities.
A blending of materiality and spirit.
I appreciate this distinctive dialect of
abstract painting as a form of poetry. Consider what Robert Frost once wrote: “Poetry
is when an emotion found its thought and the thought has found words.”
Now, let’s go somewhere a bit farther with
that. Emily Orsich paints metapoetry. It’s when painting finds that
ineffable, piquant place where words leave off.
Have you been there?
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