Upstairs Lounge

Opening: Sunday, September 8, 1 - 3 pm

In Jeanne Ciravolo’s mixed media paintings, collage is used as a formative structure. The layers of collage function both as a reference to the body, and the formal language of painting. They are membranes — skins, that accrue, to construct or obscure form, or are ripped away leaving traces of their presence. As formal elements they contain completed brushstrokes, single or grouped, a visual syntax that can be located, relocated, then fused to the surface. The gestures of collage relate to a female act of repair (patching) and craft (decoupage).