LAURA RATHE FINE ART

Primavera, a duo exhibition featuringworks from
Carly Allen Martin and Janna Watson

March 23, 2024 – May 04, 2024

Laura Rathe Fine Art announces Primavera, a duo exhibition featuring new works by Carly Allen Martin and Janna Watson. LRFA will be hosting the opening reception on Saturday, March 23rd from 4:30 – 7:30 PM at their Dallas Design District gallery.

Primavera celebrates the renewal and lushness of Spring. Carly Allen Martin and Janna Watson draw from their unique experiences of the season to produce compositions teeming with delicate abundance.

Carly Allen Martin imbues each painting with optimism and hope, her fearless approach to color inspiring joy with each brushstroke. Lively palettes temper through diverse medias of oil, charcoal, encaustic, graphite, and pastel, collaborating to form distinct moments of textural brilliance. Like the rebirth of springtime, Allen Martin’s compositions begin spontaneously. After laying the initial marks, Allen Martin then pulls back and waits for the painting to reveal her next course of action, as a collaborative effort.

Through the repetition of this process, Allen Martin captures bursts of harmony and bliss. Janna Watson captures the essence of the natural world in complex statements of hue and movement. Each purposeful stroke symbolizes a split-second instance of spiritual dance as Watson balances the real and the unreal. Watson builds intricate dimensionality, breaking down and rebuilding the natural world into seductive tangles of chroma. Through sweeping paint across expanses of deep stains, bright technicolor, or peaceful neutrals, Watson formulates secret conversations. These conversations walk the line between chaos and serenity, like the torrential spring rains and the earliest buds on the trees, natural phenomenon laid bare.

Primavera will be on display through May 4th, 2024.

ABOUT CARLY ALLEN MARTIN

Carly Allen Martin studied at Santa Reperata International School of Art in Florence, Italy, The European Academy of Art in Trier, Germany, and Aoyama Gakiun University in Tokyo, Japan. She holds a BFA in painting from Texas Christian University. Public collections of her work include BBVA Compass Bank, Texas Oncology Hospital, and Texas Christian University. Allen Martin has been featured in a variety of notable publications including LUXE, Fort Worth Magazine, 360
Southwest, Food Network Magazine, and The Dallas Morning News.

ABOUT JANNA WATSON

Watson holds an honors degree in Drawing and Painting from the Ontario College of Art and Design, and since graduating has exhibited extensively across Canada and internationally in more than 20 solo exhibitions. Her work has appeared in notable public collections including those of TD Bank, CIBC, Nordstrom, Telus, the Ritz-Carlton, ONI ONE, the Soho Metropolitan Hotel, and Saks Fifth Avenue. In 2013, she was commissioned to create an impressive, 11 x 31-foot painting for the lobby of AURA, Canada’s tallest residential building. Her work has beencovered by publications such as The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, NOW Magazine, and
House & Home.

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