As a companion to Word Up!, we will be presenting To Go In Search Of, a collection of selected works by C24 artist Regina Scully, a New Orleans based painter long known for her complex, abstract landscapes that represent multiple levels of society, its physical structures and its inhabitants moving about amongst them. In her newest paintings, Scully dives deeper into an exploration of the individual figures moving through her canvases and the threads and strings of unseen energy connecting them to each other and the earth. This showing also heralds a pop-up exhibition at High Line Nine by the New Orleans-based Octavia Gallery, featuring the work of Scully and fellow NOLA artist, renowned abstract expressionist Fritz Bultman, on view October 8 - October 31, 2019, with an opening reception on October 17, 6:00-8:00pm.
Scully's use of line and mark-making in her featured works was also loosely considered in relation to the strokes that make up characters and letters in different alphabets. The seeker and the figure who is in search of something is often associated with writing and have histories of keeping a journal or log of their travels and explorations, often sending letters back home or across lands and borders, telling of their discoveries. Hearkening to the journeys of the displaced and the wandering, her work makes tangible the experiences of those who may only appear to us as pawns in hyperbolic arguments.
The dialogue between Scully's paintings and the work of the Word Up! artists offers viewers an opportunity to chart their own individual journey through the complex terrain of current public discourse and the way we communicate with and about one another in today's challenging cultural climate.
More about co-curator, Sharon Louden
Sharon Louden is an artist, educator, advocate for artists, editor of the Living and Sustaining a Creative Life series of books and the Artistic Director of the Visual Arts at Chautauqua Institution. Her work is held in major public and private collections and has been written about in national and international publications. Louden also currently serves on boards and committees of various nonprofit arts organizations and actively volunteers her time to artists to further their careers.
