On Paper: Nature, Line, and Layer

new works by Rimer Cardillo and Marie Vickerilla

2008 Aug 15 - Oct 5

Opening Reception for the Artists Saturday, Aug 16, 5 - 7 p.m.

Rimer Cardillo, In the Pond in the Estancia with Two Red Fish, woodcut and digital inkjet print, 31 1/4" x 44 1/2"

Marie Vickerilla, untitled oil on paper, 12" x 12"

A world renowned printmaker and installation artist, Cardillo's current work juxtaposes the ancient art of woodcuts with modern photographic technology. The imagery is of his Hudson Valley pond and bird ranches of South America-fusing the natural world of his home in the United States with his native Uruguay. Working in oil paint, graphite, wax, and fabric, Vickerilla renders abstract imagery by making a mark on paper, covering it up, wiping it away, then working to retrieve part of it back.

Rimer Cardillo received an M.F.A. from the National School of Fine Arts in Uruguay in 1968, and studied in Germany at the Weissenssee School of Art and Architecture in Berlin and the Leipzig School of Graphic Arts. He has had solo exhibitions throughout Latin America, Europe and the United States and has participated in group exhibitions and important print biennials all over the world, from Europe and the United States to South Africa, and the Far East. His work is in museums and public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York City; the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo, New York; the Chicago Art Institute; the Tate Modern in London; and museums in Chile, Uruguay, Venezuela, Yugoslavia and Norway.

Marie Vickerilla received her MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School for the Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. Her exhibition history includes a highly successful show at Chace-Randall (2005), the Simon Gallery, Morristown, NJ; Park West Gallery, Kingston; the National Juried Show, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA; and Gallery 120, New York City. She won honorable mention in the 1993 National Small Works Exhibition and is the recipient of a NYS Council on the Arts, Decentralized Grant.

Apart from beauty and consummate artistry, the common denominator linking the work of these two artists is the influence of nature, precision of line, and a layering of paint or printmaking technique.