FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Dahlia Riley: Paintings
Lance Riley: Sculptures
643 Project Space
643 N. Ventura Ave
Ventura
www.643projectspace.com
DATES: February 2 – February 24, 2024
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, February 2, 5-8pm
643 Project Space is pleased to announce a Duo exhibit of paintings by artist Dahlia Riley and Sculptures byLance Riley
Both Dahlia and Lance Arrived at art making late in life after retiring and moving to Oxnard in 2005. Both feel that art has greatly enriched their post-retirement life both in terms of supplying them with endless challenges and in getting to know the wonderful stimulating art community in the Ventura and SB area.
Dahlia grew up in Israel, played the piano for many years, and then pivoted to a career in Chemistry. She obtained a master's degree from Tel Aviv University and after completing her service in the Israeli army, continued to a 30+ year career in Research technology and marketing starting in Israel and later in MD and California.
Somewhere along the way, after college, she attended her first major Abstract Art Exhibition in Tel Aviv. Having had no previous art exposure, the experience was transformative. She fell in love with the explosion of color and vowed to “someday” explore painting.
“Someday” came some 30 years later after retiring in 2005 and moving to Oxnard. Since then, Dahlia has devoted most of her time to learning painting skills and experimenting with oils and acrylics. After painting
portraits and landscapes for a few years she finally turned to non-objective paintings, the art form which soinspired her almost 35 years earlier.
Dahlia paints intuitively, in acrylics oil and Mixed Media. Initial ideas often emerge from her urban and landscape photos and evolve as shapes get abstracted and obscured, lost, and found, over many layers, over many weeks, searching for a composition balancing color texture and structure. . Her paintings are non-narrative. “Painting, to me, feels like composing music... It is a journey in color searching for structure. Shapes rhythms textures and lines “orchestrate” and enrich the composition to create a” colorful melody “
Dahlia shows regularly at the 10 West Gallery in Santa Barbara.
Lance grew up on the eastern shore of MD. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and retired from Caltech JPL after a 35 yr. career as a “Rocket Scientist”. After moving to Oxnard Lance took several art classes at Santa Barbra City College including approximately ten years of “Figure Sculpturing in Clay”. After initially actually sculping in clay, he decided to experiment with applying his computer aided design skills to sculpting.
The pieces included in the exhibit were” sculpted” from live models on a laptop computer in the studio using Daz3D and Zbrush software. The final design file was processed to produce a file that could be read by a 3D printer. The sculptures were produced on a Creality large format printer using a plastic filament (PLA or polylactide). The sculptures were made in several sections and bonded together. They are finished with bronze paint and a patina fluid.
Please join us Friday, February 2, 5-8pm, for the opening reception at 643 Project Space.