Second Saturday Art Hop

RioBravoFineArt: 110 N. Broadway

RioBravoFineArt’s opening show for Second Saturday Art Hop on September 12 from 6 to 9 pm is a dual artist show by Tauna Cole and Nolan Winkler. Both artists present artwork that reflects their personal creation process.

Winkler’s work for this show has no thematic element. Rather, her work reflects her emotional content connecting her with the world as she creates a particular piece. Her work in this show continues her journey with color and “mark making,” where mark making can be interpreted as Winkler’s use of graphic elements to create strikingly definitive images. Nolan’s work covers the gamut of the color palette, and the energy in her brushwork and mark making is unmistakably hers.

Cole’s pieces for this exhibition are from her current body of work, “The Breath Guides the Mark.” Cole’s experiences with yoga and meditation have made her sensitive to the importance of breathing to her interoception. She describes interoception as being the collection of senses providing information to an organism about the internal state of the body. She sees her breathing as being part of a meditative experience that can guide the creation of her artwork. The artist states that, for this series, “there is an intention to create a mark that is in sync with the inhale and with the exhale. Attention is paid to moving the brush or drawing tool with each inhale and exhale. It becomes an embodied experience; the breath affects the movement of my brush, and it becomes meditative.”

The intriguing work of Winkler and Cole is on display through October 25. For the show opening, music will be provided by the RGee Trio.