Opening Reception: 16 May, 5 – 8 PM
Poetry as Inspiration Workshop: 18 June, 5 – 8 PM (TICKETED)
About the Exhibition
Perspectives, like water, shift and slip. This collection explores our human capacity to intentionally alter our perspectival lens. How does the aperture of our looking glass alter what is seen and felt? How do scale, distance, and space shape our experience of ourselves and the world around us? The large, vast landscapes and spacious color-scape oil paintings evoke the sensation of standing at the edge of something larger than oneself. These imagined terrains put us in contact with the movements and cycles of the earth, land, and memory. The ink figures, small and spare, offer a counterpoint. These drawings arise from the intersection of line and shape. Through delicate attention to line quality and simplicity of shape we encounter an emotional evocation inviting the viewer in close -opening the door to human empathy, compassion and understanding. Together, these works trace the shifting nature of perception and experience. They provoke an encounter with observing how we are changed by what we choose to notice. This visual dialogue encourages us to shift between macro and micro, oil and ink, vivid color and monochromality, ultimately to hold both the vast and the intimate in the same breath.
About the Artist
Boulder-based visual artist, Verónica Love, has been captivated by both the profound suffering and perpetual beauty of human beings. For over a decade, she has explored how oil painting, ink, graphite, and mixed media can express the range of human experience and ignite the human heart. Love was born in 1976 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Chilean parents who were refugees who escaped the military coup d’état in Chile. When she was one and a half, her family fled Argentina’s dictatorship and landed in California in 1978. These early life experiences have fueled Love’s curiosity about how to see beyond our usual confines and widen our perspectives and hearts. She approaches art as a living inquiry and continuous investigation. For Love, creating is a way of questioning assumptions, deconstructing, reconstructing, and inventing. Through artistic production, there is deep contact with the malleability and temporal nature of reality.
Love finds a profound peace in the immersive wordless space of making. Her process is about awakening to the intensification of the sensorial experience itself, where the creation process slows down and enables the soul to relish the moment. Reveling in spacious awareness and playing in the land of line, color, and mark-making becomes an intimate encounter with being alive. Her ongoing curiosity and attentive exploration influences her work, both as a visual creator and as the CEO of The Newfield Network, an organization dedicated to educating people on how to “human better.” Love’s paintings have been exhibited at the Arvada Center, Longmont Firehouse, The Dairy Center for the Arts, and Core Space. In 2024, she was the recipient of the Artistic Achievement award at the Louisville Art Association National Fine Art Show.
Learn more about the artist at www.veronicalove.net
Poetry as Inspiration Workshop: Transforming Words into Visual Art
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June 18, 5:00–8:00 PM
Join Verónica Love for a hands-on, immersive workshop exploring the connection between poetry and visual art. Participants will engage with the written word as a source of inspiration, translating emotion and metaphor into visual form. All levels welcome.