Exhibition Dates: January 5 – February 16, 2013
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 5 from 6–8 pm
Gallery Location: 432 Julia Street, New Orleans, LA 70130
Hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 10 am–5 pm
Contact Info: 504.522.1999; www.arthurrogergallery.com

The Arthur Roger Gallery is pleased to present Natural Wonders, an exhibition of mixed media work on canvas and paper by Allison Stewart. The exhibition will be on view at Arthur Roger Gallery, located at 432 Julia Street, from January 5 through February 16, 2013. The gallery will host an opening reception with the artist in attendance, Saturday, January 5 from 6–8 pm.

Natural Wonders #2, 2012. Mixed media on canvas, 47 x 60 inches

With Natural Wonders, Allison Stewart continues a body of work that occupies the space between landscape and organic abstractions. Materials and process are significant and inform the imagery in this exhibition of mixed media work on canvas and paper. The artist works with various materials which attract and repel – such as acrylic, enamel, inks, tar, charcoal, metallic powders and wax. Forms appear and dissolve under layers of paint until they finally coalesce into an image that may be both familiar and unknowable. Relying on intuition and instinct, the artist paints “landscapes of interiors: cells, tissues, and systems that comprise living things.” Her intent is not to represent nature, rather to convey the uneasy balance between man and his environment and to create a response to the natural world in a state of flux.

Born in Chicago, Allison Stewart has lived and worked in New Orleans for more than thirty years.  She holds a B.S. from Spring Hill College in Mobile, AL and an M.F.A. from the University of New Orleans. Stewart has exhibited extensively throughout the United States. Her paintings are included in numerous public, private and corporate collections including the U.S. Department of State Art in Embassies Program and the New Orleans Museum of Art. She has exhibited at the Arthur Roger Gallery since 1980.