Keyes Art in Sag Harbor Presents “Broken Arrow,” paintings by Erika Ranee and Melinda Hackett on view August 7 through September 6. There will be an opening reception on Saturday, August 7, from 6 to 8 PM at The American Hotel.
According to a statement from the gallery, “Erika Ranee summersaults her way to the surface of a painting with winding webs of color stretched like limbs from top to bottom while forming distinct shapes and reversals. On occasion, she slows down a little, then takes strides before accelerating in a flourish of physicality. Ranee thrives on urgency and command. Her palette shimmers and glows as she makes instinctively buzzy, dazzling, visceral works that are self-possessed and firmly fixed in time and space.
“Melinda Hackett is passionate, painstaking, and fastidious in her search. Nearly fanatical at times. Her forms are distinctive and intense. Her color is pitched in a higher key but suggests nighttime enchantment with silvery whites and fluttering greens. These works count on a fictionalized drama, on otherworldliness, like concrete dreams, albeit oblique, evoking the idealized world of compatibility.”
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