Gallery One - In The News

“I can think of no image more loaded with memories than a dress,” says Boston artist Laura Schiff Bean, and her painting “Flirting With Possibility” backs up her contention. A richly textured white dress stands against a mostly black background, with no visible body supporting it. Even at a cursory glance, it exudes an elusive yet undeniable emotion, and questions abound: Wedding dress? Prom dress? Is its wearer young or old, dead or alive? Bean’s paintings are featured along with the lovely photo-encaustic work of Atlanta’s Maggie Hasbrouck in the new exhibit Intersections: Between Dreams and Memories at Shelley McBurney’s Gallery One,

Flirting With Possibility by Laura Schiff Bean

one of the highlights of October’s Art After Hours. The two artists convey a similarly dreamy, enigmatic tone, and Hasbrouck even seems to share Bean’s fascination with dresses, as evidenced in “The Birdcage”—though in this instance, the dress morphs into a delicate birdcage. Other Art After Hours highlights: Seven “Big Edies” and “Little Edies” will hand out treats at LeQuire Gallery’s “Grey Gardens Trick or Treat,” coinciding with Marti Jones-Dixon’s series of paintings about the eccentric duo; nuclear physicist Victoria Greene speaks at Zeitgeist’s ongoing Oblique Strategies discussion series; The Arts Company previews “Nashville’s Architectural Treasures,” large-scale photographs by Bob Schatz from an upcoming book; Cheekwood curator Jochen Weirich speaks at Cumberland Gallery, which is featuring paintings by Michael Greenspan and James Lavadour; Naked Chefs bare more than their souls at Midtown Gallery; and an exhibit of work by Bell Buckle’s Sherri Warner Hunter continues at Finer Things Gallery.