Re-Member, An Art Exhibition

An art exhibition by Rashidah Salam and Deborah Bruns-Thomas.

"I want to create a landscape that elicits a combination of magnolia and Ashoka flowers that evokes the layering effects of my painting style. This layering represents the passage of time and the circular nature of culmination and renewal. Through my flower-scape, I desire to create a scene of exuberance contrasted with a feeling of endurance. Both are expressed through the adding and subtracting inherent in the layering process. The flowers are a representation of life. Flowers regenerate the feeling of a new life, a new beginning. Utilizing the overall flower composition, I also want to incorporate into the design, pattern motifs of such flowers to create a unique dreamscape feeling.

The Magnolia, Lily and Ashoka flowers have special significance to me. The magnolia tree in front of our house starts to bloom by late March and is interestingly followed by our lily plants: when the magnolia flowers fall the lily starts to bloom. The Ashoka flowers keep on blooming in my memory."
Artist - Rashidah Salam

"I make whimsical still life paintings depicting candy, porcelain dishes and sculpted animals. Often small in scale with rich colors and expressive brush strokes, my boldly painted arrangements of sugary confections become imaginary and fantastical scenes of plenty. I work from life, recreating scenes of temptations and indulgences with faint echoes of fairytales and nursery rhymes."

Artist - Deborah Bruns-Thomas.

Artist Reception and Talk on Sunday, May 18 at 2pm