Abstract Evocative Exhibition
A few years ago, I was invited to select artists to take part in an exhibition of abstract art and to direct its installation. Abstract art had always kinda delighted me and confounded me at the same time and it was a treat to dive a little deeper into this popular form of artistic expression and to see what contemporary local creators were making in that realm. I was honored to be chosen as the juror for this first ever "Focus" show at WAAM and had a blast curating and naming and hanging the show and writing some introductory wall text and a couple/few sentences about each artist. I always wanted to have a blog that commemorated it. Here it is!! (finally!!) Abstract Evocative – Juror’s statement Abstract art seems to spring forth from one of two directions: from the soul or from nature, and either way it has its own evocative power. That’s what the title of this exhibition refers to: does the art take you somewhere? Make you think of something or feel some way or an