Leeane Williams works in pen and ink with a professional, graphic line. Black and white renderings with orange accents depict caricatured women emerging from fantastical forms to cuddle with alligators and the like. The work is inventive and pleasing to the eye, but leans in a commercial direction — not surprising (or condemnable) given the artist’s day job, designing video game characters.
Zoe Dalis rounds out the show’s variety with her happy-accident photography. In the four “Untitled Moving Landscapes,” beaches and lakes are transformed into meditations of texture and pattern through motion of the lens, double exposures, and reflections. Ocean surf is relegated to the horizon to make room for the fascinating repetition of stones dotting the strand.
It is an exciting prospect to bolster downtown attention of young artists, be they natives or visitors. The city can introduce itself to young minds that have little need to be concerned with geographical distance, and they can inject some new ideas into our sometimes provincial town.
On the Web
Four Walls Gallery: www.fourwallsgallery.com
Email the author
Ian Paige: ianpaige@gmail.com
Related:
Dimensions of depth, Across a crowded room, Just borrowing it, More 
- Dimensions of depth
WORKNOT. Who doesn’t like the sound of that, apart from feudal lords and corporate management?
- Across a crowded room
Susan Maasch Fine Art is all about collecting.
- Just borrowing it
There was a time, in the middle of the last century, when the art industry and its critical minions held the padlock keys to artistic straitjackets, fitting artists’ oeuvres into one-size-too-small versions of pre-formulated art history . . . wasn’t there?
- Family affair
“New Work,” a collaboration at Whitney Art Works between mother Judith Allen and daughter Eirene Efstathiou, is a joy to unpack.
- Creative habitats
When Christopher Campbell bought the building that houses 534, 536, and 538 Congress Street, he had a vision of locking down a property in the heart of downtown to sustain the arts community.
- One city, many angles
Artists capture the city for Greenhut's fourth biennial Portland Show
- Challenging the print
Lewiston-born painter, printer, and real-estate developer Charlie Hewitt left Maine to live in New York for many years.
- When ordinary is extraordinary
Biddeford artist Gil Corral seems to be one of those people whose surreality often seemS detached from everyday matters, but who can at times distill that perspective to simple truth.
- All in your head
Patrick Corrigan’s current show at Fort Nest on India Street originates with the artist’s experience as part of a demolition crew in various Portland apartment buildings.
- Creation’s silent roar
Nicole Duennebier’s painting reaches into a primordial deep-sea darkness to pull out luminescent patterns dotting undulating shapes.
- Academic (im)prints
The Bowdoin Alumni Printmaking Exhibition at ICON Contemporary Art in Brunswick is the perfect primer for the array of talent emerging from the Bowdoin College campus.
- Less
Topics:
Museum And Gallery
, Culture and Lifestyle, Games, Hobbies and Pastimes, More
, Culture and Lifestyle, Games, Hobbies and Pastimes, Video Games, Painting, Visual Arts, Rhode Island School of Design, Less
