Di[e]ce Boutique

I’m Irene Donnelly, the curator at Di[e]ce.

We’ve had some sales and subsequently more space on our walls this past month

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I’ve put some of my own work up for a bit. Check it out!

We are excited to host Rockville based artist Roya Gharavi, December 4th through January 7th.  The exhibition will be on view at our Federal Hill location.

Roya is an internationally shown artist, having exhibited her paintings in Rome, London and New York.  Her style of painting is reminiscent of Abstract Expressionism, America’s first art movement that flourished in the  1950’s.

Abstract Expressionism died with the coming of Pop Art, you say?

I’m afraid not, because it is still alive and well within Roya work.  The transient, escapist worlds of Motherwell and Pollock bleed through Roya’s canvases and onto our eyes and Psyche’s as viewers.  These paintings are a reflection of the past and yet somehow new.

Perhaps it is the approach and process by which Roya paint’s that makes her paintings so redolent of the Abstract Expressionists.  Shes notes in her artists statement that, “When I paint I just let go.  I don’t do any preliminary sketches,” she has the freedom to express and play and manipulate the paint however she feels in the moment of painting.  It is a child-like sophistication, that is satisfying to create, as well as view.

See more of Roya’s paintings: http://yolaroya.yolasite.com/

Opening reception 6pm to 9pm Friday, December 4^th.

Baltimore artist Natalie Steinbrunner will exhibit her work on the walls of The Di[e]ce Boutique in Federal Hill November 6th through December 3rd 2009.

Natalie’s striking multi-media paintings tackle the institution of contemporary womanhood, making naked ladies look chic, confident and empowered.

The Paintings are not a protest of fashion, lipstick and everything feminine. On the contrary they aims to celebrate the beauty of women and fashion with bright colors and symmetric compositions that mock shrines, and religious iconography.

Her paintings represent the inter workings of girls transforming into adulthood. The young beautiful girls Natalie paints are searching for their own personal inner strength and confidence. The girls are becoming aware of and shedding themselves of their childish vulnerability and their eagerness to please.

These paintings are about harnessing femmine sexuality and power through self-expression, whether it is through personal external style or shear inner confidence. Take advice from Natalie’s paintings: “looking good equates feeling good,” and come check out the unique items Di[e]ce has to offer and come pick out your very own confidence booster!

Find out more about Natalie and her paintings at:
www.nataliesteinebrunner.blogspot.com