September Show - Sabine Carlson

September 3 – 27, 2008

SABINE CARLSON

‘Igor Sikorsky Knew about Trees’

Reception: Friday, Sep 5, from 6-8 pm

Helicopters without rotors encounter ‘kite-eating’ trees as Carlson’s cheerfully ominous paintings explore themes of power and vulnerability.

In 2004, New York critic Ed McCormack described Carlson’s style as “Abstract Realism”, where subjects are depicted fairly accurately but are then placed into contexts that “simultaneously emphasize their formal qualities and imbue them with a mysterious suggestiveness.”* Carlson continued this approach with new imagery in her Gallery 10 exhibition ‘Trees and Helicopters’ in 2006.

While the pictorial spaces in these earlier works offered a sense of location within the landscape, in ‘Igor Sikorsky Knew about Trees’ the horizon line drops out of view. The compositions in the 2008 paintings bring the viewer close up to the action and, as if elevated off the ground, at eye level with the intertwined branches generally associated with the crowns of large trees.

The show’s title pays homage to the diligent attention to practical questions that Igor Sikorsky brought to the process when he engineered his first helicopter, an aircraft that re-defined mobility. Carlson’s paintings evoke aspects of past and current conflicts where helicopters symbolize the power to reach anywhere, but have also come to be seen as an emblem for insufficient planning, short-cuts and arrogance.

Carlson exhibits internationally and in the United States. Her work is included in public, corporate and private collections in Germany, Italy, in the Netherlands and in the United States.
* Ed McCormack, “Sabine Carlson and the Enigma of the Ordinary”, Gallery & Studio, Vol. 7 No. 1 September / October 2004, New York, New York

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Pat Segnan in Italy

Gallery 10 artist Pat Segnan will be based in Venice until October 30, 2008. Over the past few years Segnan has established a profile as an exhibiting artist in Italy while maintaining her exhibiting status in the US.

In a September exhibition in Erba, Italy her works will be included in a group exhibition of the artists of Venezia Viva Gallery.

In October her collage mono-prints will be featured in a solo show at Venezia Viva Gallery in Venice.



Segnan, like artists through-out art history, translates the feeling of Venice, its water world and light and culture with grace notes of color and image references into her works. She says that working with the artist of Venexia Viva Gallery has strengthened her commitment to the traditions and craft of making art over following the trends of the moment.

Small Sculpture Show

Small Sculpture Show - June 4 - 28, 2008

Gallery Hours: 11 - 5 Wed - Sat

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, June 6, 2008 6-8 PM


Gallery 10 artists explore the concept of the third dimension in sculpture and in its virtual forms of collage, prints, painting and drawing. Each artist draws on the ideas inherent in his/her own work with materials and media to suggest those concepts either as ideas or as 3-D sculptural form.

Gallery 10 In Italy

The artists of Gallery 10 have an exhibition in Florence, Italy in June 2008.
The works will be seen later this year at Gallery 10 in Washington, DC