Current Exhibition -

Paul Lorenz and Danila Rumold

September 3rd - September 27th

Opening Reception:  Thursday, September 3rd, 6-8pm

Gallery IMA is pleased to present a two person show featuring Paul Lorenz and Danila Rumold!

Paul Lorenz, Sunset, Ink, Gouache, and Casein on Panel, 24 x 24 inches

Oil and Water
Gallery IMA is pleased to present new abstract works on panel by Paul Lorenz. Paul received a degree in architecture before moving on to study art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The outcome of his educational background was for him an ongoing examination of "painting as a balance of physical structure, visual structure and color." His previous graphite line drawings were the result of lasting impressions that years of drafting excercises left with him. While they are minimal in structure, they also present richness in his exploration of positive and negative relationships.

His latest series of works on panel takes his investigation of the structure of art a step further by looking at the chemistry of painting. The works in the latest exhibition were created in the winter months of Kentucky. A dramatic drop in temperature produced a fascinating change in his work. As the ink and acrylics dried slower, the forms took on more fluid shapes, resulting in beautiful abstractions of color. "These new paintings on panel" says Lorenz, "describe a moment in time - representing the rational and irrational growth in a visual language."

Paul has also exhibited extensively in San Francisco, Chicago, and Europe. In December 201, Paul was one of the painters representing the United States at the Third International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Florence, Italy, where he won a fifth place medal for painting. In 2002, Paul again represented the United States while participating the Paris Triennial.

Danila Rumold, Red Orange On Blue Green, Oil and Cold Wax on Canvas, 48 x 48 inches

Form and Memory
Gallery IMA is pleased to introduce Seattle artist Danila Rumold. Her work in ink and graphite on paper, as well as oil and cold wax on canvas are a “negotiation between drawing and painting”, that evoke feelings of intrigue, intimacy and sprituality. About her work, Ms. Rumold reflects:

Hovering between form and formlessness, representation and abstraction, my physical relationship to trees and architecture in my environment provide an entry into the drawing and painting process. Nature presents color, while memory saturates it. Working with my sense of my lived experience of location, the paintings evoke place.

Beginning from observation I work my way back to the demands of the painting itself, in an activity of layering, scraping, scratching and sanding. The physicality of my process builds a dense texture that adds to the play between surface, space and depth. Utilizing materials from the long tradition of illusionist oil painting, I destroy that tradition while extending it in my own time. - Danila Rumold, 2009.

Danila received her Masters in Fine Arts from the University of Washington in 2001 and has since exhibited extensively, including several group exhibitions at the Kirkland Arts Center and a solo exhibition at the Kinsey Gallery in 2008.