Screens
by Julie Napoli

Medallion Gallery - Boston
Reception - Thursday, October 2, 7-9PM

Exhibit: October 2-28, 2008
Curator: Naveed Nour
Reception - Thursday, October 2, 7-9PM

Gallery hours:Monday - Saturday, 10"30 am – 5:30 pm, Sunday 12-6
Medallion Gallery
234 Clarendon Street, Boston, MA, 02116
617.235.8283  |  www.medalliongallery.com
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Screens is a solo art exhibit featuring local artist, Julie Napoli.  Residing and creating her work in Arlington, MA, Napoli combines encaustic wax, photography, and mixed media to create her work

Over approximately twenty canvases, Napoli explores the idea that everything we look at is unique to us, as we see things through screens. Our perceptions, our personalities, our passions, our bigotries, and our experiences build up, creating “screens” we constantly peer through. Images become unique to each of us, as a conversation is created between our eyes and our minds. For one person, certain colors may be amplified, shapes distorted, or altered. The “true” image is not of interest to Napoli.  For her, this is not about truth, but about examining emotional and psychological dependencies and how those affect something as concrete as the optical sense.

She begins her work with a photographic base, to depict that we all start at the same point, with the same image.  Levels of wax and collage are then layered on, just as areas of our experience and personality build up, muddying the purity of an image.  At times, the original image is enhanced, at times obscured as Napoli concentrates on visually displaying her own screens. She uses this series to depict seascapes because she believes the human emotions that created many of her screens are mimicked in the sea.  Calm and serene, harsh and destructive, moody and contrite, the sea is cathartic for Napoli as the range of emotions she feels can be played out in nature for all to see.  Yet, the beauty of it is that each will see something different in it.
 
This exhibit is curated by Naveed Nour.

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