May 2007
FLORA / FAUNA
Rose Escobar / Dan McManus
Clay, Photography, Mixed Media
Rose Escobar and Dan McManus opened their mixed media exhibition, Flora / Fauna, on May 5, 2007. The Flora & Fauna Series’ basic focus is on flora/fauna images & forms, whether through clay sculpture, digitally photographed segments, and/or encaustic encased compositions; the mixed media collage of new works from these two artists represent a unusual obsession on depicting perspectives from the intriguingly bizarre to sensual and erotic existence of man, beast and nature.
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Pearls ceramic light sculpture
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Artist's Statement Rose Escobar New works reflect recent fascination with the observation, association, suggestion &/or symbolic representation of “flora”. Never before did I take time to notice the graceful, erotic, & sometimes threatening shapes found in flora forms. Nor did I stop to notice their alluring luscious palettes of glistening textures, or the mysteriously sensual colors of their nimble presence. And their scents, another sense acutely stimulated; sometimes euphorically calm & lift spirits taking one’s breath away, while others possessing such a horrific stench of a decomposing decay tuning heads rapidly. The works' intention is to question what’s visible and what’s not, and why more often, most barely notice or appreciate their existence & contributions.
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 Venus ceramic light sculpture |
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 Sally ceramic light sculpture |
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About Dan McManus McManus won the Best in Show at the 2007 Members Show at the Newport Art Museum with a three dimensional piece. Essentially a photographer, for this show McManus, a Newport resident, has chosen to show photographs with an overlay of encaustic (colored wax).
Hippo - Florence, Italy encaustic on photograph on metal
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St. Peter encaustic on photograph on metal
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Science encaustic on photograph on metal
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