Pamela Walsh Gallery is pleased to present Emotional Abstractions, featuring paintings by Patricia Rubio and Marna Shopoff. Both artists explore abstractions in their work, but through a distinctly different lens. The dialogue between these visual languages helps us define the myriad ways in which one can express life through abstraction. Emotional Abstractions will be on exhibit in the gallery through April 3rd.

Inspired by the vibrancy of her birth city Madrid and the bright colors of San Francisco, Patricia Rubio’s work focuses on geometrical structures. She is interested in the relationship between shapes and colors as they relate to emotions. She creates geometrical constructions as a way to organize her thoughts and memories into compositions that are articulations of her feelings. Each painting is a meditation on how shapes fit together and the potential for each one to form a new mass. Her work is bright, playful and joyous, much like Patricia herself. She begins each work with an emotion or thought which she associates with a color or shape. Rubio’s work becomes a form of visual storytelling as she explores her memories.

Marna Shopoff, an Indianapolis-based painter, blends both contemporary and traditional methods in creating her superbly executed abstract paintings. Fascinated by Phenomenology, the philosophical study of the structures of experience, her canvases fracture space into a complex mosaic of geometric shapes and pulsing color inspired by personal experiences and memories. Marna’s paintings are elegantly structured. Creating depth, balance and motion in the three-dimensional space of her architectural compositions. Unlike many abstract paintings seen today, hers have a focal point that draws the viewer in, allowing you to visually enjoy the whirl of shape and color throughout the transparent, overlapping layers.