- "Femme" is Bob Markell's first solo exhibit of his monotypes and etchings on the North Fork. A classic approach to multicolored etchings using à la poupée and chine-collé enhancements. The monotypes are also studies of the nude in repose and in the process of dressing. They are studies with a great deal of movement and transparency with colors layered giving the feeling of watercolor. Markell's love of his subject is quite evident in these homages to women. His work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, The National Academy of Design in NYC, and he had a solo show at the Wallace Gallery in East Hampton.
Also on view will be the work of three other artists who use women as their subject. Gary Bartoloni photographs his subject in our enchanted woodlands. These images are romantic in feeling with "other worldliness" about them. He has exhibited at OK Harris in NYC and The Light Registry in Greenport. Marina Tsesarskaya's lithographs have a more contemporary approach, with a tribal feel to them. She incorporates photography and block printing from textile blocks she collects in India. Caroline Waloski has a decidedly light and Bosch-like imagery in her semi-autobiographical paintings on psychedelically patterned plastic panels. Both Tsesarskaya and Waloski are members of the Manhattan Graphics Center, exhibit internationally, and have work in the permanent collection of the Library of Congress
