April 13 – May 5, 2024
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 13, 2024, 5 - 7 pm Artist Talk: May 5, 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Together, these paintings by Debra Ramsay and Leslie Roberts constitute an unconventional field guide to birds. Each of Ramsay’s reductive compositions on translucent slabs captures the plumage colors of a single bird species. Ramsay and Roberts translate ornithological data into sensory experiences that parallel their avian subjects' vivid color and kinetic delicacy.
Roberts’s panels hold written lists of bird families or species, organized by color or habitat, and diagrammed into pattern-like formations.
For Debra Ramsay's paintings, printed QR codes are available, allowing viewers to listen to recordings of the sounds of each bird, and to view photographs of it. These auditory and pictorial resources add extra sensory layers to visitors' experience of this work.