PACE OF NATURE - SELECTED WORK
September 9 – October 14, 2018
ATELIER NEWPORT’s fall exhibition entitled, Pace of Nature a three-person exhibition, attempts to explore what becomes of nature and the resulting beauty that only time can produce. Mary Dondero, Richard Nocera and Jeff Soderbergh, working in different mediums, share a slow pace of nature in common in their process to make work. Soderbergh’s patience and passion for utilizing and repurposing materials only found in existence in nature; Dondero’s dense drawings of foreboding thickets, and tangled nests explore the temporal nature of existence. In Peter Frank’s recent essay regarding Richard Nocera’s work, he writes, “The ground does not manifest absolute “absence”, nor does the figure embody “presence”. Rather, each factor seeks and gains fulfillment from the other. In addition, the lucidity of Nocera’s formula does not propose a recipe for mere harmony. Anything but; there are frequent moments of tension and even seeming dissonance.” As Frank further stated, “A studio is at once a feedback mechanism and anechoic chamber: ideas go there, or come from there, virgin-born, tested only by their direct relationship to the artist’s intentions.” Through a visual and somatic experience, these artists share a physicality in their daily practice to make work, and a meditative state in their quiet solitude required to achieve it. Pace of Nature, will attempt to explore in these shared transcendental practices in an attempt to bring the natural world more fully into being.