Underground in April: Layers in Abstract by Heather Sibley & Ivy Dionne
- Feb 25
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Updated: Mar 26
This April, the Underground Gallery presents Layers in Abstract, featuring new works by Heather Sibley and Ivy Dionne.
Bringing together two distinct yet intersecting practices, the exhibition explores abstraction through layering, repetition, and intuitive mark-making. Both artists build their imagery over time—allowing color, texture, and gesture to accumulate, intersect, and resurface within richly developed compositions.
Organic references appear throughout the work—branches, blooms, shifting terrain, atmospheric forms—sometimes clearly articulated, sometimes embedded within fields of abstraction. Rather than direct representation, these elements emerge through process: built, obscured, and revealed again through layered surfaces.
For both artists, abstraction is not a reduction but a construction. Marks are revisited and revised. Color relationships shift as layers stack and settle. The resulting paintings carry depth and movement—active, vibrant, and thoughtfully composed.
Layers in Abstract highlights the shared language between two artists whose approaches differ in tone and rhythm, yet connect through material exploration and the physical act of building a painting. Together, their work invites sustained looking—revealing complexity, variation, and interplay within layered surfaces.
Join us in the Underground Gallery this April to experience Layers in Abstract.
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