SIDONIE VILLERE

JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY is proud to announce the inaugural exhibition at its new location on Julia Street, the main thoroughfare SIDONIE VILLERE will open to the public on Saturday June 2, 2007 with a reception to meet the artist from 6-10pm.

“Organic Intervention” is Villere’s first solo exhibition.  The works are a geologically based exposition in clay, porcelain, plaster, concrete, wax, and paint.  Her works are process oriented, using the material to construct, deconstruct, repair, and sanctify objects with architectural, geological, and biographical references.  The exhibition has two distinct parts: clay forms as ceramic sculpture and paintings as assemblages that are deconstructed. The clay forms are personal and distinct and relate to a specific geological metaphor while also acting as a vehicle for self-expression. The paintings are another vehicle for her self-portraits.  They inspire her clay work though material, form and color.

In her own words:

“The ceramic forms and their specific arrangements are created visually by borrowing a geological metaphor. I create moods through closely observing and then paralleling both the emotion to be expressed as well as the logistics of the geological metaphor. It is not just the colossal or the private that I want read in these pieces; it is the profound experience of their dichotomy that I give my viewer.  My two-dimensional works hover somewhere between painting and sculpture, transcending the definitions of these particular media. I create works that are better understood by looking rather than by reading or describing.  I am going after the empathetic, rather than the learned response.”