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Available online in their November issue

The soft watercolor choices in Shelly Porter’s paintings coalesce into keenly composed
meditations on the fluctuating organic systems that assemble, sustain and deconstruct life.
Porter shades her work with a focused iconic minimalism in the tradition of Georgia O’Keefe,
but uses her simply framed subjects to grapple with complex and compound explorations
on cellular and cosmic scales. The elegance at work in her strokes rarely seeks to tame
the elements they address, but rather reins them in, emulating the compositional philosophy
of Wassily Kandinsky by engaging the inner sounds of form and structure in the face of
deceptive and startling abstraction. Her artwork boldly and clinically analyzes supernal themes
with an emotionally charged palette and the subtlety of thematic pop art reduction.
Porter’s work has appeared consistently over the last decade in numerous exhibitions at the
Art Center of Corpus Christi, as well as around her native state of Texas, and now reaches
into the Northeast at the Agora Gallery.

 

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