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The Durham Art Guild in partnership with the Research Triangle Foundation presents “Sensory Connections” featuring work by DAG members Jill Hunt and Ruth Smith. Through emotive color and mark-making, Jill Hunt’s abstract paintings represent life experience and the emotions carried with it. Her work reflects a softness that invites viewers in, connecting with her meaningful pieces. Ruth Smith’s work explores the hidden yet simple structures behind people or moments – two people embracing, a moon rising over a rooftop, imagining the lines of a tree extending out beyond the limits of its branches. She enjoys the sensorial experience of designing and working with wood – embracing the imperfections of the natural material she works with and the seemingly unpredictable outcomes each can provide.
Jill Hunt
Through emotive color and mark-making, Jill Hunt’s abstract paintings represent life experience and the emotions carried with it. Her work reflects a softness that invites viewers in, connecting with her meaningful pieces.
Ruth Smith
My work focuses on the lived experience of having invisible illness and how that informs interactions between me and my community. Invisible illness and disability lead to a number of misunderstandings and missed connections in an environment that is built for healthy people. Navigating this world is an adventure, sometimes traveling through a maze, an upside down world, or one with no gravity at all. My work contains hidden images, reflections, and light where shadows should be. The negative and positive spaces become one and the same throughout the process of creating these pieces to play on the lack of depth of field in real life. The viewer may see multiple elements of the drawings eventually noticing that what was hidden is now in plain sight.
- Material: Varies by artist
- Medium: Canvas
- Year: Varies by artist
- Exhibition: June 2, 2023 – November 2, 2023
- Photography: Press Record Media
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