"EARTH/WATER"  
June 5 - July 18  

Opening Reception Friday, June 19th, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Oil paintings by Amy Solomon and the sculptural ceramics of Chandler Romeo 

"DAM Contemporaries” Summer Studio tour Saturday  June 27 with artists  Amy Solomon and Chandler Romeo in their respective  studios as they discuss what inspires their art. 

The Western landscape and our relationship to it is explored by artists Chandler Romeo and Amy Solomon.  In “Earth/Water” the ceramics of Chandler Romeo explores varying methods of demarcation from the quilt-like grid of the  Public Land Survey System to  the flowing vara strips laid out by Spanish settlers in Colorado and Northern, New Mexico.  Her discovery of vernacular earthworks not made by artists as fine art but made by necessity,  have inspired this body of work.  Her ceramic vara strips question the confounding issues of how humans occupy and alter the western landscape.

The expressive oil paintings of Amy Solomon are grounded in the sensual essence of nature. Her abstracted landscapes are complex in brush strokes and marks with compelling simple areas of color. “Abstraction within the figurative creates balance and order” says the artist. Powerful passionate physical energy is unmistakable in her work as she paints the rhythms and pulses behind the appearances in nature.  It is Solomon’s reverence for her subject that elicits the responsiveness and complexity of her paintings.