October 1st - November 12th 2022
Gallery Hours: 24/7
miniMAC
25 West Mt Airy Avenue, Philadelphia PA 19119
www.mountairycontemporary.com
info@mountairycontemporary.com
miniMAC is pleased to announce You are Seeing, an exhibition of paintings by Donna Quinn and Rick Lewis. Both artists use a personal, largely non-objective visual vocabulary built on an ongoing engagement with the material and observations of their daily lives.
In Quinn’s panel series, she explores the challenges of relationships and how they become altered when placement and position are manipulated. For this work, she cut up sections of larger paintings on paper, reassembled the segments onto standardized squares, and arranged the results into a grid to create new relationships through juxtapositions and realignments. The result is a fluctuating field that creates an ever shifting yet contingently unified whole.
Lewis writes of his process, “My studio is located near the Brooklyn waterfront in the Sunset Park neighborhood. On my daily walks through the industrial zone and down to the shore I look for source material for inspiration. I make photographs, sketches, record audio, and sometimes collect bits of flotsam to carry back to the studio. This amalgam of source material is then assembled, catalogued, and rearranged to provide the impetus to begin painting.”
Donna Quinn (donnaquinn.com) makes abstract, textured paintings that are often inspired by themes central to relationships, the spaces we occupy, and the changes brought on by the passage of time.
She uses a materials-driven process to create layers of paint and collaged paper to create images that evoke the past, a sense of loss, and a reverence for memory. The result is a textured surface etched with marks and lines that signify both division and connection.
A graduate of Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia, PA, Quinn has exhibited her work extensively in Philadelphia and other cities such as Alexandria, VA, Washington DC, New York City and Miami. She has had solo exhibits at Rosenfeld Gallery and Boston Street Gallery. More recently her work was included in group shows at Stanek Gallery in Old City. She has received several grants and was a recipient of the Fellowship Award in Painting from the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts. Her work is held in numerous private collections and is currently available at Gallery on Park in Swarthmore and the Art Shop at Moore.
Quinn is based in Philadelphia, PA.
Rick Lewis (ricklewisnyc.com) was born in Lumberton, Texas in 1965. He received a Bachelor of Science in Graphic Design at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas and completed an MFA at the University of North Texas in Denton in 1992. Lewis works primarily as an abstract painter. Additionally, he incorporates drawing, printmaking, photography and sculpture into his studio practice.
His work is represented in New York, Philadelphia, Texas, Connecticut, Hong Kong, and Indonesia. Rick is the recipient of the Carol Cook Memorial Foundation Arts Award for excellence in painting and Artist in Residency awards from the Millay Colony in Austerlitz, New York, the Bali Purnati Center for the Arts in Bali, Indonesia, Endless Editions in New York, New York, and the Edward F. Albee Foundation in Montauk, New York.
Rick Lewis’ influences include Alberto Burri, Antoni Tapies, Texan visionary painter Forrest Bess, Paul Klee, Arte Povera, and Process art. His work is held in numerous public and private collections throughout the world. Two printed survey catalogs of Rick’s work were recently added to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Permanent Library.
He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
