Last Chance

Catch it or Regret it

by Monica Weymouth

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Published: Jul 24, 2007

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Local artist Jim Brossy uses found objects and materials such as tar, wax and concrete in his textured, mixed-media paintings of urban scenes (pictured). One man sprawls across a bench above an empty bottle of SKYY vodka, Coke cans and dingy sneakers. Another man reads the Dec. 21, 2006, New York Times, in which the headlines have been altered to depict the end of war in Iraq.

"Occupations" brings together three dramatically different artists and styles. Self-proclaimed "abstract expressionist extraordinaire" James Enders combines bright colors and distorted body parts to make slightly disturbing sculpture and paintings. Shane Leddy's large-scale photographs are shellacked and divided into panels, the images murky and muddled. Echoing maps and blueprints, former architect Matthew Davis transforms rough scraps of plywood into abstract topographies.

Inspired by beauty magazines from the 1960s, Brenna K. Murphy creates line sketches of fashion-savvy women's 'dos using strands of her own light brown locks. In Fat Face, a short pixie cut with choppy, side-swept bangs gracefully frames chubby cheeks. A perky bob cures all in Jutting Jaw, and Large Nose finds salvation with a voluminous, curly ponytail.

 

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