Studio A.B is the workplace of artists Ann DiSalvo and B. Bayard. On the walls surrounding their tools and materials, they display artwork both current and past. Occasionally, exhibits feature other artists. February’s annual exhibit of The Pomegranate Group show was one such example. Ann DiSalvo and Studio A.B hosted the group’s third exhibition of figure drawings. When Pomegranate Group member Denise Finney’s image was chosen for the “A Taste of Ashland” poster, she was invited to return.

Paintings by Denise Souza Finney are presented at Studio A.B this month, celebrating her selection by showing her painterly explorations of form and color from which the poster image emerged. Finney finds the color relationships in still lifes and in figure studies a very satisfying way of expanding her skills with oils. Using gestural brush strokes she finds the gesture inherent in a figure in motion.
Find Denise Souza Finney at Studio A.B signing posters during A Taste of Ashland, April 26 and 27.

Figure studies are a mainstay in Ann DiSalvo’s practice. After 17 years of regularly pursuing this classic discipline, she still finds new ways to see and render the human form. A new direction for DiSalvo is beyond the studio, in plein aire landscape work. The impulsive capture of light in constant motion across the mountainsides, an illusion of a pause in time, is her newest challenge. It is in contrast to the close rendering shown in her portrait and illustration work.

Rounding out the exhibit are renderings of clouds by B. Bayard. One new painting and one older work are contrasted to a small collection of clouds rendered with digital tools and output with ink jet printer. The latter come from Bayard’s current exploration in “electronic collage.” The process allows for spontaneous accidents as well as utmost control over each pixel of the work.
The exhibit runs through April 30.

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