MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE
APRIL 15 – MAY 15, 2020 | Curator: Joshua Field
Julie Heffernan
Henriette Hellstern
Sandy Litchfield
Stefania Pinsone
John Guy Petruzzi
Jean-Pierre Roy
Karin Stack		 As artists retreat into their homes and studios amid a global pandemic, we will often pursue the making of our own worlds, sometimes havens which give us the illusion of control, sometimes fantasies of a world that is profoundly different from our current realities, and sometimes dystopian recreations of the world as it is in this moment. This exhibition features work in which artists, working in a new isolation, pursue the creation of their own universe.
Julie Heffernan, "Self-Portrait as Emergency Shipwright (reworked)", 2019, Oil on Canvas, 60 x 84"
Julie Heffernan, "Weather Change", 2019, Oil on Canvas, 68 x 96, Courtesy of the artist.
Julie Heffernan, "Self-Portrait as Fat King (reworked)", 2019, Oil on Canvas, 63 x 67"
Julie Heffernan, "Self-Portrait as Homemaker", 2019, Oil on Canvas, 38 x 52"
Henriette Hellstern, "another nature III", 2020, Acrylic and Polymer on Canvas, 59 x 59 inches, Courtesy of the artist.
Henriette Hellstern, "another nature II", 2020, Acrylic and Polymer on Canvas, 59 x 59 inches, Courtesy of the artist.
Henriette Hellstern, "another nature I", 2020, Acrylic and Polymer on Canvas, 59 x 74 inches, Courtesy of the artist.
Sandy Litchfield, "Marion River", 2020, Gouache on Paper, 22 x 22 inches, Courtesy of the artist.
Sandy Litchfield, "Flying Cathedral", 2020, Gouache on Paper, 22 x 22 inches, Courtesy of the artist.
Sandy Litchfield, "Lighthouse", 2020, Gouache on Paper, 22 x 22 inches, Courtesy of the artist.
John Guy Petruzzi, "Emergent Decline: Drepnis Coccinea", 2019, Watercolor, acrylic on Yupo, 20 x 26 inches, Courtesy of the artist.
John Guy Petruzzi, "Funerea", 2019, Watercolor, acrylic on Yupo, 35 x 48 inches, Courtesy of the artist.
John Guy Petruzzi, "Protonotaria", 2019, Watercolor, acrylic on Yupo, 26 x 20 inches, Courtesy of the artist.
Stefania Pinsone, "The Calling,", 2020, Watercolor, acrylic on golden aluminum, 47 x 31 inches, Courtesy of the artist.
Stefania Pinsone, "The Last Judgement,", 2006, Watercolor, acrylic on canvas, 31 x 43 inches, Courtesy of the artist.
Stefania Pinsone, "Ambient of Connectivity", 2019, Watercolor, acrylic on golden aluminum, 28 x 50 inches, Courtesy of the artist.
Jean-Pierre Roy, "A History of Study", 2019 Oil on paper mounted on panel, 24 × 18 inches. Courtesy of the artist.
Jean-Pierre Roy, "Shore for the Unmanned", 2014 Oil on canvas, 40 × 30 inches. Courtesy of the artist.
Jean-Pierre Roy, "Macroherence", 2014 Oil on canvas, 71 × 60 inches. Courtesy of the artist.
Jean-Pierre Roy, "Neometry", 2014 Oil on canvas, 72 × 84 inches. Courtesy of the artist.
Karin Stack, "Spiral Sphere", 2019, Acrylic, watercolor, graphite, collage, on Stonehenge, 22 x 30 inches, Courtesy of the artist.
Karin Stack, "Pink Rooms", 2019, Digital print with carbon paper, acrylic, and fancy ribbon, 22 x 30 inches, Courtesy of the artist.
Karin Stack, "Unsquare Rooms II", 2019, Acrylic, watercolor, graphite, collage, on Stonehenge, 22 x 30 inches, Courtesy of the artist.

EXHIBITION ARTISTS

Julie Heffernan Brooklyn, New York, USA
www.julieheffernan.net
Heffernan’s luscious self-portraits represent a darkly magical exploration of the landscape as interior world, replete with dense symbolism and conscious echoes of stylizations ranging from the Hudson River School grandiosity, to rococo opulence and surrealist mystique.

Henriette Hellstern Copenhagen, Denmark
www.henriettehellstern.com
Hellstern is a contemporary Scandinavian painter obsessed with nature vs. human themes. 

Sandy Litchfield Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
www.sandylitchfield.com
Sandy Litchfield is an artist, curator and Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. “I paint landscapes as a way to reconcile awakened experience with the color, mood and composition of inner dream-worlds.” 

John Guy Petruzzi Youngstown, Ohio, USA
www.johnguypetruzzi.com
John Guy Petruzzi is an Ohio-based artist, educator, and lifelong naturalist working with watercolor painting on synthetic paper to relate new realities of habitat loss, climate change, biodiversity and extinction. 

Stefania Pinsone Stein AG, Argau, Switzerland
www.stefaniapinsone.pictures
Born in Rome, now living and working in Switzerland and exhibiting globally, Pinsone’s work is characterized by a powerful personal painting style that combines a strong figurative imagery with the elegance of a new contemporary impressionism of the digital age. 

Jean-Pierre Roy Brooklyn, New York, USA
https://www.artsy.net/artist/jean-pierre-roy
Jean-Pierre’s stirring, rich paintings blend geometric abstraction and figurative scenes in optically dense environments played out against arid, dystopian landscapes.

Karin Stack Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA
www.karinstack.com
Stack works in drawing, printmaking, photography, digital and collage, frequently exploring themes of the built, fake, and idealized landscape; and describing and denying space. 

EXHIBITION CURATOR

Joshua Field Denver, Colorado, USA
www.joshuafield.com
Field is a nationally and internationally exhibited artist and Assistant Professor of Foundations and Fine Arts at Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design in Denver, CO. He holds a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD and an MFA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in Amherst, MA. His work has been featured in numerous publications including ArtSlant, DailyCandy, DesignYouTrust, and Saatchi Online’s 100 Curators, 100 Days and he has participated in residencies at the Contemporary Artists Center and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA).