More than one viewer has noted the surprising spring-like quality of much of our 2021 AUTUMN INVITATIONAL. LEONARD HOLLINGER’s airy palette dances in pastels, including a piece entitled “Spring.”RACHAEL MCLAUGHLIN’s floral motifs often inform her abstract patterns. And, not least, SIMONE BAILEY CAMPBELL’s “New Day”series leaps off our Wall, with its hot pink and warm green bursts of vitality. “The fresh colors against the dark backgrounds emphasize the new day that has arrived,”Simone tells us. “They signal a new perspective in the manner we see and approach our lives.” Her paintings also pay tribute to the flora and fauna near her New Jersey home: magnolias, dogwoods, black locust trees, persimmons, orioles. Maybe it’s no coincidence that, finally, as we prepare to take down this intrinsically hopeful show on Saturday, the temperatures will start dropping — and it will feel like winter is not far off after all.
SIMONE BAILEY CAMPBELL
“New Day Series 2: The Song Has Begun”
acrylic on wood
185.
