Clare Grill
Somethings Last a Long Time
August 16 through September 16, 2007

Hartford, CT— Real Art Ways presents Clare Grill's Somethings Last a Long Time, opening Thursday, August 16 during Creative Cocktail Hour, from 6-10pm. Creative Cocktail Hour is $10 for the general public, and free for Real Art Ways members.

Clare Grill is an artist living and working in Queens, NY. In Clare's paintings and drawings, color and vigorous brush marks are “caught” in the act of their making. Clare juxtaposes structural and gestural marks, bold and neutral color, and varying surfaces to contain and protect painted areas that she finds to be " real" in their unmediated directness.

Her current work, consisting of a wall installation and paintings, uses forms found both intuitively through the painting process, and from ephemeral and permanent structures found in nature. Clare uses representations of camping tents and geological cross-sections to reference human acts of protection and containment.

As human beings, we endlessly attempt to freeze time, to seize the transitory, to concretize experience, to record our actions, feelings, sights, dreams in order to hold onto all we wish would remain forever. Clare's work is about making what is momentary seem eternal, and ultimately, is a commentary on the act of painting itself.

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