Please join us for our “First Thursday” opening reception with the artists, March 3, 2016, from 6:00-8:00 p.m. Norman Lundin and Lynne Woods Turner will give informal walking tours of their exhibitions beginning at noon, Saturday, March 5.
Greg Kucera Gallery is pleased to announce our first exhibition of work by Seattle artist Norman Lundin. The title, Spaces: Inside and Outside, is a straightforward description of his paintings’ subject matter. What you see are painterly descriptions of spaces, rooms and landscapes, with no people visible though their presence is felt.
Norman Lundin, FLOOD - DESERT CITY, 2016, oil on canvas, 48 x 51 inches
“As a painter my skills at describing subject matter are reasonably good; for many years though, the subject matter, is generally not what interests me. What has really interested me are the spaces between the things described. As a frame of reference for most of the works in this show, try thinking of the objects as existing to describe the space." —Norman Lundin
STILL LIFE IN FOUR PARTS, 2015, oil on canvas, 40 x 72 inches
DENNY AND GRETCHEN'S KITCHEN, 2015, oil on canvas, 36 x 72 inches
Lynne Woods Turner works with shape and space to explore that point where the geometric and the organic meet. Paintings made of oil paint applied in thin layers over linen and cloth explore symmetry, positive and negative space, proportion and perception in small intimate works that are both minimal and sensual in feel. Her quiet but rigorous work explores the conventions of painting itself with subtle suggestions of relationships to landscape, architecture and the body.
“Lynne Woods Turner’s paintings can be characterized as geometric abstractions, which most often connote precision and cool detachment, but there is nothing mechanical about them. What strikes you when you see her work, rather, is the handmade-ness of it; it's all subtlety and refinement.”
—Constance M. Lewallen, Adjunct Curator, University of California,
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film
LYNNE WOODS TURNER, UNTITLED (9195), 2015, oil on linen, 16 x 16 inches
LYNNE WOODS TURNER, UNTITLED (9108), 2014, oil on linen over panel, 16 x 16 inches
