Vogel/ Private Landscapes at Colores

Colores Gallery is pleased to announce that painter Nathalie Vogel will return to the gallery on OH Weekend. Her exhibition of new paintings, Private Landscapes, will open at Colores Gallery, 904 West San Antonio (Hwy 90) on October 5, 2007 at 7pm.

Vogel's new paintings present a new perspective on the landscape tradition. Through a diversity of views internal, external, aerial, imaginary-- a unique and relentless questioning emerges: what are we looking at? Do we actually see what we are looking at? Confronted with the exterior putative realities, it is one's own vision charged with one's own culture, past, and memories that the spectator must confront.

The exhibit moves from reappropriations-- of a kitsch vacation advertisement (with an octopus snuggling with a kitten), or of an abstract painting by another artist (here Pauline Brouin) to realistic compositions evoking psychological tensions. Two landscapes of Marfa itself are included; one a view through the artist's hair. Each view takes a step or two away from reality, as the artist seeks to take a considered distance from her surroundings.

Nathalie Vogel studied classical painting in Paris at the Academy de la Grande Chaumiere and in New York at the New York Academy of Art. Dimitri Salmon, Curator of Paintings for the Louvre, praised her technical virtuosity in his 2006 book, Ingres: Regard Croises. Her work can be found in many private collections nationally and internationally.

The opening reception for Nathalie Vogel will take place on Friday October 5 2007 at 7pm at Colores Gallery, 904 West San Antonio (Hwy 90). The gallery is open Wednesday-Sunday 11am-5pm or by appointment.