2 Painters + 2 Potters Exhibit at Gordys

The summer exhibit at Gordy Fine Art and Framing will feature works by four area artists whose works both contrast and compliment the others. Titled "2 Painters + 2 Potters," the show includes painters Eric Ernstberger and Margie Prim and potters, Kim Anderson and Carol Burt.

The opening reception will be held on Thursday, June 4th from 5 to 8 PM with light refreshments being served. The exhibit will continue through July 31st at the downtown gallery and frame studio. The public is invited to view the exhibit during the reception or normal business hours: Monday through Friday, 9 AM to 5:30 PM, Saturday, 9 to 3.

Eric Ernstberger, well-known urban designer and principal of Rundell, Ernstberger Associates, LLC in Muncie, is quickly gaining recognition for his forceful abstract acrylic paintings. Alive in color, with an almost frenzied movement in application, buildings and landscapes dance with energy. These are contemporary and visually dynamic works. Explains the artist, "Painting for me is expression in the raw... an intensely focused yet spontaneous moment."

Margie Prim, like Ernstberger, also paints with a knife. Her landscape and still life paintings also vibrate with an energetic application, this time with oil paints. A different kind of vibrancy in color and surface tension moves the viewer's eyes over Indiana fields, tree lines, street scenes. While both artists paint buildings, Prim's focus is on historical places, threatened by neglect, that she can "save" on her well-tended canvas.

Like the two painters, the two potters exhibit similarities in their work as well as great differences. Well established in their field, Kim Anderson and Carol Burt both throw on potter's wheels to create vases, cups, plates, and other utilitarian objects which they finish with beautiful glazes. Anderson has created a body of work around the female figure, with reference to Venus and other ancient forms and her ongoing investigation about woman as vessel.

Burt is a well-known Muncie art teacher with numerous awards and grants to her credit. Her love affair with clay took a serious turn in 2002, and she began exhibiting in juried shows in 1990. Experiments with the firing process produced works of soda fired stoneware, raku, wood fired and gas reduction fired pieces. The feminine again shows in the clay, this time in scale, form, and decoration.

Gordy Fine Art and Framing is located at 224 East Main Street in downtown Muncie, next to Civic Theatre. For more information, please call (765) 284-8422 or visit www.gordyframing.com.



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