New American Paintings
Number 8, Portfolio and Statement
| Trisha Orr is primarily interested in how chaos and order can be accommodated in the same composition. She Loves complexity - crowding together enough surfaces and sii tries si' thai what she is look ing ai breaks into abstraction while she paints, only to be reassembled again as she steps hack. The works serve as a poignant metaphor for the contemporary experience. where chaos and ordering, a >nlusi< >n and clarity are the dichotomies of everyday life. Everything happens ai once. yci ;i balance exists in the middle of a disorienting flux, Orr paints from life, not Irom photographs, as her tight photorealisl style might lead the viewer to believe. She assembles still-lifes using ll( iwcis from her garden, vases Irom her mother's and grandmother's attics, and objects found in local junk shops. In making still-lifes. Orr wants to create work which are infinitely greater than the sum of their parts; she wants to make new worlds transfigured by a sense of beauty, order and meaning, but that also incorporate the chaos and flux of the world. Recent exhibitions of Orr's work include 199t anil 1996 solos at Katharina Rich I'erlow Gallery in New York City. Art in America is among the publication that have reviewed her work.  2006 Hessian Road Charlottesville, VA 22903 809-293-4831  |
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C. Still life with Shepherd. Oil on canvas, 40"x36". Courtesy of Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery
Opposite bottom
life with Valentine.
on canvas, 42" x 36".
Curtesy of Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery.
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