Opening Reception: Francisco Mayor Maestre and Harriet Yale Russell: Overheard Conversations

Whether in Francisco Mayor Maestre’s remnants of imagined working-class lives, expressed in abstracted images of suburban apartment façades on the outskirts of Madrid, or in the exotic, playful and organic abstract internal world depicted by Harriet Yale Russell, it seems overheard conversations inspire both these artists’s explorations.

In a synergy of imagination and structure, an artist creates a unique visual world. As independent and solitary as that act appears, it most often requires finding community, even a sentience, within the work itself. In this place of dialogue, the tools of shape, color, line, edges, rhythm and repetition converse within the artist’s mind and with the artist’s marks to produce a result. From this conversation, the work evolves over time to resemble, perhaps even become, a known, felt-sense world the artist can share.

In an unexpected dialogue between the works of both Francisco Mayor Maestre and Harriet Yale Russell, the exhibition Overheard Conversations invites viewers to enjoy symbiosis and meaning in the visual worlds of each.