ENO Gallery opening reception

Eno Gallery announces an opening reception for two upcoming Exhibitions:

A two person exhibition in the upper gallery:
Jacob Cooley - landscape paintings
Donna Polseno - ceramic figurative sculpture

The lower gallery will feature ceramic artist Nick Joerling. (details below)

Opening reception for both exhibitions:

Friday June 29 from 6:00pm to 9:00pm
Exhibition dates: June 29 to August 25, 2012

Jacob Cooley and Donna Polseno

'Irretreivable Loss' 11x10x33ceramic by Donna Polseno

'Cedars' 16" x 40" oil on canvas by Jacob Cooley

This exhibition presents the figurative ceramic sculpture of Donna Polseno and the landscape oil paintings of Jacob Cooley.

Each of these artists presents a coherent vision free of unnecessary decoration by their ability to subtract the non essential.
Pascal once apologized to a correspondent saying: “The present letter is long, as I had no time to make it shorter." Likewise, in painting and sculpture one can distill a work to it’s essential elements. Both Cooley and Polseno have an aesthetic that eschews superfluous embellishment to elegantly reveal the absolute and necessary.

Jacob Cooley received his BFA from the University of Georgia in 1990 and his Masters degree at the University of North Carolina in 1993. His work is in numerous national and international collections including The Kenan Institute for the Arts, the U.S. Embassy in Podgorica, Montenegro, and the Nasher Museum of Art in Durham, NC. See more of Cooley's work.
"The glowingly soft treatment of the surface and the lyrical compositions make Cooley's transcendental landscapes speak softly, but powerfully"
Kate Dobbs Ariail

Donna Polseno received her BFA at Kansas City Art Institute and her Masters degree at the Rhode Island School of Design in 1974. Her work is in numerous important collections including The American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona CA, the Kansas City Art Institute, the Mint Museum in Charlotte NC and the St. Louis Museum of Art.
"Donna Polseno is a ceramic artist of consequence - an artist of distinction..."
Wayne Higby - Chair of Ceramic Art, Alfred University.

Nick Joerling

The lower gallery will feature ceramic artist Nick Joerling.

'Pocket Vase' 6.5x4x16ceramic vessel by Nick Joerling

Nick Joerling received his MFA in ceramics from Louisiana State University in 1986 and is a full time studio potter and educator. His work is in numerous important public and private collections.

Joerling's pottery has always had a sculptors sensibility. More than simply creating a functional vessel Joerling's pottery captures and portrays  a lyrical sense of movement. With a saucy gestural motion his pots embrace a sense of dance and  rhythm. Joerling's earlier work gained this sense of movement from his sculptural references to figures in motion. His newer work portrays that sense of movement not only through form but with the use of his surface treatment utilizing drawn glaze patterns.

 In a 2011 interview in Ceramics Monthly Joerling explains: "...with the recent work, the surfaces have gotten more active. That has to do with my attempt to draw on the pots, and those shadow  figures break up the surface in a much different way than a brush stroke does. I’m finding out that running multiple figures across a pot sets up a rhythm."

Opening reception: Friday June 29 from 6:00pm to 9:00pm
Exhibition dates: June 29 to August 25, 2012