In
The Best is Yet to Come, Chinwe Uwatse offers samples of
the range of works she has created in the past ten years. Since
1982, she has had five solo exhibitions and has been featured in
numerous group exhibitions. Primarily a painter, Uwatse moves confidently
between painting in acrylic and painting in watercolor. In the process,
she has produced two very distinct painterly styles that have received
critical review from her collectors. Her style is dictated by the
technical qualities of her medium as well as by the formal elements
of uli design. On the one hand, her acrylic paintings are bold colorful
statements whose compositional style rests on a skilful blending
of brushstrokes, uli logic of design, and sharp engaging colors.
On the other hand, her watercolor paintings display a haunting luminosity
and translucency. Uwatse's watercolors have been described as "demonstrating
a lyrical and exquisitely ephemeral quality that hints at unseen
energy fields and forces that influence the everyday realities of
the material world, and are themselves modified by the thoughts
and actions of this realm" (Maurice Bryant, Earthy Treasures
Gallery, Ottawa, 1992).
(Maurice Bryan's panel text for Dissimulation:
An International Exhibition of Paintings at Earthly Treasures Gallery
in Ottawa, July 29 to August 29, 1992.)
EXHIBITION FORMAT INSTRUCTION
The exhibition environment is divided
into two spaces, with thumbnails of the exhibits at the left side
of the screen. The images and text play in the center of the screen
as you click on any of the thumbnail images at the side. The exhibition
text accompanies the images.
To return to this page, just click the last thumbnail and click
the "back" arrow/botton that appears on the display screen.
