Rhonda Gates

Polychromiscape

January 11 - February 9, 2019
opening reception: Friday, January 11th - 5 to 8pm

The elegant compositions in Polychromiscape invite you, the viewer, to explore personal connections to moments in nature. With vigorous brushwork and thick paint, nuanced gradations engender a sensuous, tangible quality to space, distance and atmosphere. Soft graphite is incorporated to depict features that punctuate the atmospheric spaces while fleeting effects of light evolve within a framework of predominantly geometric shapes. The carefully constructed paintings present you with visual structures that reveal unexpected aspects of the landscape and provide a sense of mass to atmosphere. Subtle shifts in color combined with the physical properties of paint propitiate the tension between surface and space. Polychromiscape provides an intimate exposure and poignant experience to contemporary landscape painting.

Rhonda Gates
Cold Snap
oil / graphite on panel
36" x 60"

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Winter River
oil / graphite on panel
30" x 40"

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Ice Floe
oil / graphite on panel
16" x 20"

Rhonda Gates
Near Bodega Bay
oil / graphite on panel
16" x 20"

Rhonda Gates
Sister Birch Trees
oil / graphite on panel
16" x 20"

Rhonda Gates
Filtered Sunlight
oil / graphite on panel
18" x 24"

Rhonda Gates
Cold Snap
oil / graphite on panel
20" x 24"

Rhonda Gates
Raining Leaves and Sunshine
oil / graphite on panel
18" x 24"

Rhonda Gates
Early Morning Contrails
oil / graphite on panel
24" x 36"