| We’re writing to let you know about our upcoming June 2007 exhibition: “Roberta Paul, Creation : Science,” a one-person show of new paintings and works on paper by this Boston-area artist. We will be devoting the entire gallery to her complex visual contemplation of the relationships between empirical science and religious faith in a new body of work that juxtaposes imagery based on a 15th century masterpiece by Masaccio with conceptual maps of the heavens. The show will open on Friday, June 1st, and remain on view through Saturday, June 30th.
Roberta Paul explores the Biblical expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden against a backdrop of stars and constellations, posing earthly issues of shame, despair and mortality before a background that points simultaneously to the known and the inexplicable - a wide blue yonder that signifies both an arena that science seeks to quantify and one that religion identifies as the heavens. “Creation : Science” is Paul’s third one-person show at Allston Skirt Gallery. Her work was included in “Pretty Sweet: The Sentimental Image in Contemporary Art,” at the DeCordova Museum (2005), and in “The 18th Annual Drawing Show” at the Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts (2004).
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