Perspective and Colors

Perspective: an object closest to you - anything in the foreground - a rock even —  is rendered by the artist larger and more vividly than the mountains in the distance, thus confounding what you know about the world in contrast to how you literally see it.

Color: tonal values and color serve to complete the illusion. Without the dark tones of the foreground or the pastel tones of the distance you lack the experience of perspective and depth.

Joanne Thorne Arnold, Bernadette Decker, Carrie Decker and Stacie Flint will bring their view and their interpretation of these elements as part of this exhibition.

For Joanne Thorne Arnold, it is the exploration of colors through familiar landscapes. Joanne Thorne Arnold is an oil painter who specializes in color. For 40 years her canvases have portrayed everything from the figurative to the abstract. After graduating from the State University of New…