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Photos from: The Aviary

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Exhibition Review: The Aviary

The Aviary is the current exhibition on display at downtown Orlando’s Canvs Gallery. This show, which feels like a borderline ornithological exhibit features the work of UCF alumni Sarah Jane Rozman in her first solo show. Rozman displayed work ranging from acrylic paintings to pen and ink illustrations. The variety of work was linked together by a single theme, birds. Rozman’s large scale paintings displayed the head and upper body of groupings a species of birds in a field of image type format. The painting “Seagulls” features a flock of seagulls nonchalantly looking in various directions. Each seagull appears to be a unique bird with intent and it’s own story, some look up longingly at the sky while others fight over a french fry. The artist renders the gulls in a very stylized clean illustrative manner that does not appear as uninformed illustration. The color pallet is vibrant and the paint is applied on solidly, containing little to no blending outlined by solid black contour lines around each figure. The bold color choices and clean lines brought to mind contemporary tattoo artist like Earl Funk whose work draws inspiration from graffiti. The larger acrylic bird paintings were countered by small delicate illustrations. These smaller mono-colored works were less stylized and more observational than the graphic acrylic paintings and each featured a species of bird in various mediums. These works had more of a focus on technique and knowledge of material. Rozman presented the illustrations in grey wooden frames that gave them a rustic antique look. While I did enjoy the contrast in the two styles of work I felt they were so different that the only feature linking the two methods was the bird theme. While I enjoyed them both for certain aspects I seemed to lean toward the subtly humanness of the small intimate drawings of works like “Pigeon”. In closing The Aviary was a fun light hearted show which expressed Rozman’s range as an artist as well as sentimentality and is not “one for the birds” 🐦