Face of cannabis, photographs by nichole montanez
January 4, 2019 - february 10, 2019
Georgia Amar's Habitat Gallery & Studio is proud to host Colorado artist Nichole Montanez and the Face Of Cannabis, her exhibit of portraits and documentary photographs of the children who would change the medical cannabis movement forever. The project has spanned 5 years; contains thousands of images; and includes portraits of 283 children, sending Nichole all over the country documenting the journey of these children and their families. The exhibit will contain some documentary photographs and an installation of over 90 images.
https://denver.cbslocal.com/2019/01/16/face-of-cannabis-santa-fe-art-district/
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Georgia Amar -
Oils, prints and studies August 3, 2018 - October 31, 2018 |
5280 Magazine: Denver artist Georgia Amar's latest collection of landscapes, intelligent abstracts, and studies-in-motion highlights her bold use of colors as well as the unique impact of varied lighting on her engaging compositions. The gallery employs a dimmer switch so that visitors can view the paintings in different light intensities, appreciating how their foregrounds and backgrounds shift in response.
Georgia Amar
Artist Statement
Conceptualist art, minimalist art, post-modern art: these terms characterize works of art which generally fail to engage, involve and interest the viewer. These works are part of closed circuit between artist and artwork. My artwork embodies philosophical insights and aesthetic vision critical to any work of art and is based on careful observation of the real world. My art, in a wide range of media, typically cool and understated, succeeds in involving the viewer and enticing an emotional response. My work transforms the witness into collaborator in a series of novel and arresting insights and restructuring. If I have to explain it, it simply means that it failed.
Colour in my work is never static. Any given colour imperceptibly moves through a range of hues and intensities which require a very sophisticated control in mixing colours and applying them. Perspectives suddenly shift causing the viewer to reassess awareness of self in space, and transforms a wall or space into a privileged place of contemplation, a place of withdrawal from the surrounding world so that the viewer, focusing on an inner calm, may emerge from the experience of concentration newly energized.
Georgia Amar
Artist Statement
Conceptualist art, minimalist art, post-modern art: these terms characterize works of art which generally fail to engage, involve and interest the viewer. These works are part of closed circuit between artist and artwork. My artwork embodies philosophical insights and aesthetic vision critical to any work of art and is based on careful observation of the real world. My art, in a wide range of media, typically cool and understated, succeeds in involving the viewer and enticing an emotional response. My work transforms the witness into collaborator in a series of novel and arresting insights and restructuring. If I have to explain it, it simply means that it failed.
Colour in my work is never static. Any given colour imperceptibly moves through a range of hues and intensities which require a very sophisticated control in mixing colours and applying them. Perspectives suddenly shift causing the viewer to reassess awareness of self in space, and transforms a wall or space into a privileged place of contemplation, a place of withdrawal from the surrounding world so that the viewer, focusing on an inner calm, may emerge from the experience of concentration newly energized.
I work in oil paintings, serigraphs, shallow reliefed murals, environmental installations, light and laminated stained glass, my art tends to soften and blur the hard edge of much contemporary artwork. The dryness of such work is instead replaced by a shifting fluidity which makes the environment more inviting to the viewer.
~ georgia amar.
~ georgia amar.
