No Clothes Required Art

Even after rejuvenating our art collection last month, we still had a few bare spaces throughout the Warehouse in desperate need of painted canvas.

Thanks to local artist Gayle Curry we're bare no more. Which is kind of ironic considering the collection our new paintings come from is called No Clothes Required.

You can also see Gayle's work at In Your Eye Studio & Gallery in Paseo during the First Friday Gallery Walk.

Artist Bio (from GayleCurry.com)
Throughout her artistic career, Gayle Curry has worked with different media and subject matter. Recently, however, abstraction and mixed media with acrylic and oil have taken Curry down another path of discovery.

Curry says the purpose of her work is "to find a way to express a vision without being literal. I explore form, shape, and color, and work them on the canvas until I evoke emotion."

For Curry, color is a significant component in her work. She thrives on the challenge of its subtleties and possibilities, which are limitless, in how to articulate a message. To create tension is also part of her goal in a final work. Tension stirs surface and deep emotion in potential viewers and myself. Curry strives to combine calm and crazy, light and dark in order to construct an unexpected reaction. Other elements such as words, symbols and simple patterns reveal themselves through their look or meaning, which are then incorporateed into the final intent.

Curry is particularly drawn to abstraction and mixed media because of its meditative qualities - one of the benefits of painting is insight into herself. Sometimes Curry finds that the painting guides her into a different direction and then it becomes a collaboration.