"Nantucket #4" by Irma Cerese, 18" x 18" Acrylic/Canvas
“Nantucket #4″ by Irma Cerese, 18″ x 18” Acrylic/Canvas

Landing Gallery, 409 Main St. in Rockland is pleased to announce the
opening of “NUANCE OF COLOR”, a solo exhibition of 51 new paintings by
Irma Cerese, opening on Friday, August 3 through September 15. The
Artist’s Opening Reception will be held on Friday, Aug 3, from 5-8 PM
during Arts In Rockland’s first Friday art walk.

Irma has always been fascinated with color and her primary interest in
painting is focused on color relationships. Her landscape paintings
border on the abstract and are seen simultaneously as both
representational landscape and abstraction.

“I make paintings because the act of manipulating colored paint on a
canvas is an intense, visceral process for me and I like to see what
develops as I do this. Color itself has always fascinated me, and has
formed the basis of all my work, beginning with geometric
abstractions. After awhile, it felt like something was missing in the
abstractions and I turned to landscape both as a point of connection
and departure. I don’t wish to tell a story, or accurately describe
the observed world. Instead, I convert the primary elements of that
world – trees, sky, ground, water, the occasional building, – into an
underlying geometric structure. The resulting images often border on
the abstract, only loosely connected to the subject that attracted me
in the first place, although I do seek to evoke the general atmosphere
of that subject. I aim to produce work that is compelling in its own
right and a celebration of visual experience.”

Irma Cerese received her formal training at the Academy of Art and the
School of the Art Institute, both in Chicago, IL. Irma maintained a
studio in New York City until 1985 and her paintings are in numerous
private, corporate and institutional collections in the United States
and Europe. This exhibit celebrates Irma’s 12th anniversary with
Landing Gallery, where she has an annual solo exhibit of her new
paintings.

Please join us Friday, August 3rd from 5 – 8 pm. Summer hours: Mon –
Sat 11– 5, Sun. 12 – 5. For more information please call 207 239-1223
or e-mail Landinggallery@gmail.com.