YOUR FUNNY MOODS investigates the layering of process and play of light in the works of Rob Howe and Gabrielle Adamik. Transparency, change and fluidity playing against solid/static form, process and observation. Each artist starts at opposite ends, with the works meeting here in the middle.
Rob Howe works from a moment he has captured, a fluid sky landscape stopped, investigated/dissected and recreated. The artist making obvious the information otherwise unnoticed, and giving over to paint and colour to represent the light and form. The intricate investigation and deliberate layering of colour manipulates the viewer and the artist’s ‘seeing’ of these sky landscapes. These works particularly investigate the balance between solid form and ‘empty’ space within landscape, the play of light and colour on both and the relationship between them in the compositions.
Gabrielle Adamik starts from the material itself, molten transparent glass, and allows the fluidity of the material and the process she imparts upon it, to create the form. Her lines in ‘Loop’ become a wall drawing of layered components; shadow playing against the texture of glass, flocking, and wall. Evoking a tactility and sweetness connecting the viewer directly to material, but as always the unpredictability and ‘funny moods’ within the alchemy of glass-making dictate the final work. Her gridded works feel like pulled fabric. The shapes represent moments when the material is pushed, pulled, held or collapsed, in the kiln and through hand forming. The work completed by the relationship of the glass against the wall, and away from the wall, and in shadow.
Gabrielle’s works change as the sky does; capturing light, as colour and cloud move across our visual space.
Rob’s works capture a static mood or moment, through the artists’ constant observation of the ever-changing light, against form, within the landscape.
