Works by Tatana Kellner and Laura Von Rosk

Albany Center Gallery's upcoming exhibit will feature original artworks by artists Tatana Kellner and Laura Von Rosk. The exhibit will open on September 23rd and run through November 1st. There will be an opening reception in conjunction with 1st Friday on October 3rd. The gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, Noon to 5 p.m. Albany Center Gallery is located at 39 Columbia Street in downtown Albany, across from Tricentennial Park.

As a mixed media artist, Kellner focuses her artwork on contemporary events and personal history. Through her use of photography and printmaking, she creates a social commentary on human faults and weaknesses. Her drawings focus on the human subject, re-creating each figure to show tension and anxiety. She combines art and language in each piece, words such as, "Compulsion," "Off His Pedestal," "Insatiable," and "Lies" are seen accompanied with the figures. Within her photography, themes of life and death are explored. Kellner's overall representation of contemporary events creates a strong emphasis on human strength and emotion. Kellner received her bachelor's degree from the University of Toledo and her masters from the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Landscape has been a subject in art continuously explored by artists. Nature is where Laura Von Rosk finds her artistic inspirations. In regard to its natural forms and beauty, she manifests geographical elements into a surrealist representation of space, light, and presence. Her palette consists of bright vibrant hues, saturated heavily with earth tones and yellows. Through her use of color, Rosk re-creates landscapes that enshroud the viewer in mother nature's warmth and splendor. Her focus on scale and repetition within each piece signify the grandeur of nature. In her artist's statement Von Rosk states "The forms are not just a product of what I see, but combine what I know about constructing paintings with some deep and as yet unconscious memory system with what I see in the landscape". Through the combination of these elements, Rosk exhibits a visual fantasy, flawlessly merging the aspects of reality and imagination. Von Rosk received her bachelor's degree from SUNY Purchase and her master's from the University of Pennsylvania.

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