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Pepa Leon at Reyes + Davis

April 6, 2008

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Pepa Leon at Reyes + Davis
Saturday night was the inaugural sailing of Brigitte Reyes' new venture, the Reyes + Davis Gallery at 923 F St. NW, 3rd floor. R+D will host four month-long shows a year in the space used the rest of the time time by the very lucky Judy Jashinky as a studio. (A very long studio space story could be told here. As much as artists are fascinated by tales of the hunt for affordable space, suffice to say that Judy, Richard Dana, Michael Berman and Stuart Gosswein were the happy beneficiaries of a city policy in the Penn Quarter area requiring developers to devote some space to arts uses.)

    Pepa Leon's vibrant work was a wise choice for the first show. These large scale pieces are based on underlying screen prints, which the artist then obscures with paint and collaged elements. The screenprint teems with ovoid, almost egglike shapes and the colors are unashamedly high key. The large scale enhances the effect of being enveloped in growing life.

To follow later this year at R+D, watch for Barbara Liotta, Janis Goodman and Judy Jashinsky.

 

 

 
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