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Sept 4 - October 31

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Chryysa Saj
Christina Saj rises from a modernist tradition steeped in a vocabulary gotten from the likes of the Europeans Klee and Kandinsky. Externally, her works' main features are an overwhelming wealth of bright colors, carefree delight in decorative effects and a preference for the ornamental, merging representational and abstract elements while at the same time provocatively choosing to express the lore of icon painting. Spirituality for the artist is, here, infused with a complex stock of materials utilizing the stenciling of industrial screens (Saints and Sinners, and Jonah in the Belly of the Beast), to the repetitious applications of human skeletal parts from medical x-rays (signifying relic-like patterns linked to bygone biblical character references). [more]