6 January – 28 February 2015
Gallery Flux, Ashland, VA
Review by Charles Jos Biviano
Richmond art-goers were treated to an extraordinary exhibit Thursday evening, 8 January, at Gallery Flux. Entitled Subtle Reality, the exhibit showcased the recent work of Fine Artist Christaphora Robeers.
Christaphora Robeers hails from the culture-rich The Hague, Holland. As a sixth generation artist, she was schooled in the very best of Dutch academic tradition – and this comes through in the breadth of the exhibit. The show's offerings are vast with an inventory spanning the disciplines of bronze and mixed-media sculpture, collage, painting and printmaking, Her theme is timeless, developed from cinematic cues of the movie still. Each work represents a frame frozen in time expressing both a quiet strength and the simplicity of the moment.
Robeers' sculptures explore a viewer's perception of space, light, and shadow and how they interface with the dimensionality of time. Her cast solid bronze Two Sisters displays a spiritual level of personal solitude whose theme is based on strength. The landscape paintings are explorations in the relationships between land, sea, and sky. Her great oils: The North Coast, Isle-of-Scilly, Coast At Sunset, and White Light On The James are masterworks. Their textural layering of opaque and transparent glazes beckon the viewer into choosing what is land or sea. Turner-like atmospheric effects unite this body of work. As with the oil paintings, the Artist's Monotype printmaking continues this same exploration of Earth and Sky. Quickly sketched land studies in graphite serve as the anchor for each print while lost edges and undefined borders of transparent color enable the viewer to participate in the 3-D quality of each piece.
Subtle Reality sings with one voice. The exhibit displays Robeers' Art at its best – simple, quiet, yet very strong.
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