Laura Radwell began to paint in the late ’80s and over the years has continued to explore various media: traditional oil painting, sculpture, calligraphy, and photography. The origin of her photo-based art is digital, a result of a familiarity and understanding of technology born of years of doing design work. Photographic images that she captures are transformed into abstractions, which suspend habitual patterns of perception and create something imagined out of something real. In this exhibit, In Space, Over Time: Paintings + Digital Abstracts, Radwell features her work with landscapes. “Landscapes alternately inspire us and take our breath away,” Radwell said.
In Space, Over Time: Paintings + Digital Abstracts by Laura Radwell. Through Dec. 10. Arno Maris Art Gallery, Westfield State University, 577 Western Ave., Westfield.
— Kristin Palpini, editor@valleyadvocate.com
