Mathematics, Maps and Myths..Art Opening

JOAN BELMAR AND LORI ANNE BOOCKS
“MATHEMATICS, MAPS AND MYTHS” 

October 10 - November 10, 2013

Opening Reception, Saturday October 12, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
At Adah Rose Gallery
Live Music by Bud Wilkinson

Second Reception
Saturday October 19, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
At Studio 1469, Exhibiting until Oct 27 http://Studio1469.com
1469 Harvard St NW (in rear) Washington DC 202-518-0804
Joan Belmar

In his recent paintings “Territories,” Joan explores psychological and political perspectives through the universality of maps. The series, based on maps from his native Chile, pay homage to the indigenous people who are so rarely referenced in anthropology and cartography. Finding himself suspended between the personal and universal as he rediscovered the maps of his childhood, Joan utilizes symbols, colors, drawings, grids, dots, and lines to search for freedom in a structured world. His works reference a time in our past that is impossible to recreate, but important to remember.

Joan Belmar was born in Santiago, Chile and emigrated to Spain where he began to paint professionally. Joan moved to Washington DC in 1999. In 2003 he was granted permanent residency in the U.S. based on extraordinary artistic merit. Joan has shown internationally and in Washington, D.C. at the Washington Project for the Arts, the American University Museum, Charles Krause Reporting, Addison Ripley, the World Bank, and was also a Mayor's Award Finalist in 2007 as an outstanding emerging artist. In 2009 the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities awarded him an Artist Fellowship Grant and in 2010 and 2013 he was awarded an Individual Artist grant in Painting from the Maryland Arts Council. This is his second show with Adah Rose Gallery.

Lori Anne Boocks

Lori Anne Boocks is the keeper of stories. The passage of time creates layers of experience through the remembering, misremembering, and forgetting of stories. Each of these moments are important influences on her painting and thinking. In her newest work, text continues to serve as both subject matter and the basis for mark-making. Texture for each piece comes from her hands, brushwork, and a subtractive process where layers of poured washes are added to the surface, then partially removed with cloth. Her exploration of stories hinges on the juxtaposition of multiple directions of depth, including time, space, mathematics, and meaning.


Lori Anne Boocks earned a BFA from Old Dominion University in 1992. She has had solo exhibitions at Sitar Arts Center, Studio Gallery and the Delaplaine Visual Arts Center. She has also shown at BlackRock Center for the Arts, MAXgallery in Baltimore, artdc and the Maryland Federation of Art. She was a Semi Finalist in the Bethesda Painting Awards in 2012, awarded a Living Gallery Residency at the Annmarie Arts Center in 2011 and won a first place award at the Festival of the Arts in Portsmouth, VA.
This is her second show with Adah Rose Gallery