Passage Island; not available

Passage Island; not available

Work by Tara Costello & John Gaunt

About the Artists:

Tara Costello has been developing an abstract language through painting to contemplate aspects of quiet places. She is particularly interested in the interplay of land and the simplicity of geometric shapes. She works with rich Venetian plaster and trowels on wood panel. The plaster is a malleable material and when used in layers – it allows her to question aspects of time, light, and space. Costello paints to find beauty in the tension between the illusion of a felt space and the primitive mark that created it.


John Gaunt
has been building on a career that began as a realist painter. Gaunt has distilled his research into an abstract language that is at once gestural and restrained. Interested in the idea of painting and drawing serving as a proposition, the work offers closure yet resists naming - a desirable tension that occupies his current practice. Gaunt will be exhibiting new work derived from his artist in residence appointment on Isle Royale this past summer.


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