Birds Margaret Neill through which viewers can see

through which viewers can see the inner workings of her craft

For these works on paper the artist used crayons on vellum to reveal a painterly quality and surface structure

or even transcendent state

While working on this project the artist is reminded of Josef Albers' statement: "There is a profound harmony in the immeasurable spectrum of color

he uses a prism

Birds Margaret Neill through which viewers can seeLaura Newman's paintings combine geometric delineations of space, ephemeral color fields, dynamic lines and organic forms, resulting in atmospheric images evocative of representational landscapes, but always opening up to something more, something beyond. In Birds, whorls and pours of translucent paint activate a crisp field of pure white oil paint. For a long time Newman has felt that a painting comes alive when she can feel the space in it. In her