New Stuff

Jillian Bonahoom "Sycamore Tree"

There is always something new and exciting at TRA Art Group. We are doing our best to have a constant flow of new art coming into the gallery. It keeps us excited and it keeps the clients coming back. Here's some new stuff from our artists:

Wall of Russ Klix paintings

Russ Klix does these amazing, simple, muted landscapes. They are very delicate yet masculine. Wind swept trees-scapes in remote places in Michigan. The snow has a timeless quality like that of a sand dune. The trees are toppled or erect, as they attempt to survive the harsh climate.

The water looks icy cold as the sun rises just out of site of the picture plane.

I cannot tell if it is blackish water or earth. Not dirty or polluted, but without the sunlight that filter through the trees in the distance.

A new group of paintings from Nancy Dendy. Always Michigan. Always serene. The bluish one on the lower left is my favorite. The water reflects the distant misty tree in the center of the picture. It takes a skilled hand to create depth in a painting using only coloration and shading.


This new 4 panel abstract piece from Laurel Pitynski has a defiant Donald Judd kind of thing goin' on. Something about stacking it up like this; it seems more imposing to me. It's totemic quality forces me to consider the similarity in mass to my own body. The mirror quality to it gives us something to ponder also. I can't get away from the feeling that I am being reflected upon, thought about, and sized up by an inanimate object.

This one has some lovely browns, blues, taupes, and metallics in it.

Here's a close up

A new 6 panel is brighter and more intense palette for Laurel.
Lower left is a "Spiky Bowl" from local glass artist Andrew Madvin. To the right is a figurative bronze on a green marble base by Porret.


Paul Runde has been blowing glass in Detroit for years now. He builds these interesting hanging systems to create a powerful sculptural effect for a medium normally aligned with craft. His blown and cast pieces hang from steel armature. The separate items, which are intesting enough on their own, unify to make a hanging sculpture that invokes nature and man-made items.

2 more from Mary Rousseaux. Sweet. Nuf said.

Cheers!

J