Julia von Metzsch: Evaporating Landscapes

On View: March 4 – 26, 2016
Reception: Friday, March 14, 6 – 8pm

In her second solo exhibition at Gallery NAGA, Ramos offers a body of work that is vigorous and distinctive. With the exception of one painting of an abstracted magnolia, the new paintings are primarily seascapes. Islands, trees, and rocks all come in and out of view, but what is most mysterious is the atmosphere Ramos is able to capture. One can almost feel the humidity hanging in the air in Fog Burning Off. Steaming Ocean depicts a black landmass in the middle of a turbulent ocean where fantastical sea smoke rises from the water.

Ramos uses transparent layers of paint to achieve depth and illusion. This disjunction between the layers of paint application creates a tension particularly well suited to the ever-changing New England weather.

Kettle Island Waves

2015, oil on panel, 11x13"
SOLD

Rock in a Flurry

2016, oil on panel, 11x14"
SOLD

Shark's Mouth in Winter

2015, oil on panel, 24x18"
SOLD

Snowdrifts and Kettle Island

2016, oil on panel, 24x34"
SOLD

Stormy Magnolia

2015, oil on panel, 31x24"

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Waiting for Snow

2016, oil on panel, 16x20"
SOLD

Florida Shell

2015, oil on panel, 11.5x11"
SOLD

Pigment of Rustrel

2015, oil on panel, 18x24"
SOLD

The Island Through the Window

2016, oil on panel, 48x84"

Fog Burning Off

2015, oil on panel, 22x15"
SOLD

Julia von metzsch

Julia von Metzsch offers a body of work that is vigorous and distinctive. Her paintings are primarily seascapes done on site from Massachusetts’ north shore. Islands, trees, and rocks all come in and out of view, but what is most mysterious is the atmosphere and movement von Metzsch is able to capture.

Von Metzsch received her BA in 2007 and Masters in 2010 in Fine Arts from Boston University, and then returned to Boston University as a MFA Painting Fellow at the School of Visual Arts. von Metzsch is in the collection of Danforth Art.