June Kelly Gallery hosts Rebecca Welz

Saturday, 29 March 2008 01:24

New York City - An exhibition of new sculptures by Rebecca Welz that are powerfully articulate in color, form and configuration will open at the June Kelly Gallery, 591 Broadway, New York on April 4.  The works will remain on view through May 6.Welz’s sculptures soar, whether they hang from the ceiling, are on the wall or stand tall on the floor, an innovation for this current exhibition.  Are they kites?  Or are they origami?  She leaves it to the viewer to decide about Inner and Outer Spaces.
 
“I utilize steel arcs and spiral elements threaded with folded steel planes that combine to form structure,” Welz says.  The plates, she adds, “can be defined in terms of cosmology as galaxies, alternate universes, black holes and stars.

“These works revel in the poetry of space, the movement and energy of planets and stars as they take part in the choreography of the universe.  The rhythms of nature and physics, of music and color, of temperature and density all come into play.”

She comments that on a clear night in a dark place, “we can see an endless sea of stars and planets….  It is the universe outside of our world, but it is of our world as well, because we perceive it and move through it.”  This is the basis of Welz’s art.
 
Rebecca Welz, a native of Sausalito, California, lives and works in New York City.  She received a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from the Boston Museum School of Fine Art.  
 
Welz has been represented in numerous one-person and group exhibitions.  Her work is included in many corporate and private collections, including Goldman Sachs; Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton; Credit Lyonnais, Prudential Life Insurance Corporation, AXA Corporation, Pfizer Incorporated, and Warburg Pincus, all of New York.  
 
Visit June Kelly Gallery at : www.junekellygallery.com/