Shapes of Rhythm - Work by Jennie Harvey

Cottonwood Center for the Arts is pleased to announce a solo exhibition for the month of April featuring works by Jennie Harvey. Harvey’s works are abstractions of texture, bold colors, and dreamy imagery inspired by the natural world.

From the Artist:

Shapes of Rhythm is an abstract art collection which features rhythm and soft atmospheres to express the beauty of nature through colors, lines, impasto textures, gestural brushstrokes, and abstract shapes.

Various rhythms such as flowing, progressive, and alternating are incorporated to create feelings of sprightliness. The atmospheres are serene and created with soft tonal hues yet balanced with more energetic gestures. Impasto textures add dimension to the serene, dreamy, and starry sculptural paintings.

Photo credit: Flowing - Jennie Harvey

ENTROPY

ENTROPY: lack of order or predictability; gradual decline into disorder.

The old tree may tumble in a storm. It may knock out the power. The junk drawer isn't likely to remain orderly. The lawn that needs mowed and edged, or it will consume the sidewalk and go to seed.

Your hair will get tangled. It will get dirty.

The windows you clean will be water spotted after the next rain, the dust will settle on the shelf you wiped. When the days get short and cold the leaves will fall, they will not fall carefully.

The manicured garden will grow wild if not minded. The parking lot of the empty strip mall will crack and grow its own garden, without care for arrangement.

For this open call for entries we asked artists to consider entropy, and the concept of disorder as the eventual natural state of the world. It is in the nature of humanity to want to create sequence, structure, patterns, and lines. We are asked artists to share an interpretation of the delight that can be found in the opposite - the jumble and disarray that is the eventual evolution of all order.

Photo credit: Juan D. Morales - Disillusion