Opening reception: Friday, November 3, 5 - 9 pm
Gallery talk: Wednesday, November 8, 7 pm

Coviello mixes dramatic graphic elements with quiet fleeting images in his current body of botanical works at Nexus.  He also presents us with new challenges in image making, presentation, and most importantly, the interactive nature of the viewers’ perception. Three stylistic variations of the same botanical elements are explored.  In the color field variations, aluminum plates are painted with gradient color fields and then overprinted with graphic botanical designs that have been digitally stripped to their essential elements of line.   The viewers’ perception of form, depth and color of this set will appear to change at differing distances and angles to the image viewed.  The “calendar images” explores the reflectivity of the polished aluminum plate’s surface against the flatness of the botanical designs and the visual interactivity of the “black and champagne” set is achieved by layering multiple images directly over polished aluminum or adding a tactile touch by printing on Kozo which is then mounted on plates.

Although the primary resources for this latest group of painted and screened images are Coviello’s photographic acquisitions, the underlying truth of each image is not about a click in time but about revealing the complexity and the beauty of commonplace of botanical forms.  Pine needles, fern fronds, common leaf forms and a sheaf of wheat become the vehicle, the carrier of pictorial expressions suspended in rich and sometimes moody color.

The botanical shapes in this exhibition were appropriated from walking and sitting and drawing experiences in Rehobeth Beach, Prince Edward Island, Fairmont Park and the Morris Arboretum.