Painter Vickie Byron

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Solo Exhibition featuring Vickie Byron at 4 Elements Studio satellite windows gallery located at 131 GENESEE STREET, UTICA, NY (Genesee St. street view) January 12, 2024 thru March 24, 2024. An opening reception and artist talk will take place on January 12, 6:00 pm located at 1607 Genesee Street, Utica, NY. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Melinda Karastury 315-765-6923 info@4elementsstudio.org Utica, NY— The public is invited to view the solo exhibition of artist Vickie Byron at 4 Elements Studio satellite windows gallery located at 131 Genesee St. Utica, NY. The exhibition can be viewed any time day or night from the Genesee St. sidewalk or street view. This solo exhibition is a collection of oil and acrylic paintings. The exhibition will be available for viewing Friday, January 12, until March 24, 2024. The opening reception and artist talk is on January 12, 2024, 6:00pm at 4 Elements Studio located at 1607 Genesee Street, Utica, NY. 4 Elements Studio Satellite Gallery Presents Track City, An Exhibition of Paintings By Vickie Byron That Capture NYC In Motion With Subways, Bridges, And Text. Vickie Byron is an artist who paints the geometric understructures of New York City’s subways and bridges, embedding text into the painted architecture of the city in an expression of its culture and social history. Inspired by graffiti and views from the elevated J train between Brooklyn and Queens, this series explores movement and stillness with fast rails and ever-waiting figures. Byron lays down tracks in her compositions, arranging the city’s lines into spiraling patterns and diagonal sequences, a study of rhythm and visual speed. The geometric regularity of steel girders, and the intervals between them, explore the way our eyes are conditioned to read boxes of information in a narrative fashion, similar to a filmstrip. Observed from above and below, cyclical columns rotate continually, while fences stop the motion and keep us in place. Stage-like subway platforms are viewed behind painted frames which refer to the physical act of making a painting and the theatrical arranging of elements on a stage or canvas. In these paintings of specific neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens, Byron combines modern and classical architecture, subway tracks, and wordplay with fast moving compositions to portray time, transition, and isolation, documenting a 21st-century city in flux. The exhibition is from January 12, 2024 through March 24, 2024, and is visible 24 hours daily from the street. 4 Elements Studio Satellite Gallery is located at 131 Genesee Street, Utica, NY. An opening reception and artist talk will take place on January 12, 6:00 pm at 1607 Genesee Street, Utica, NY. Vickie Byron is an artist based in Queens, NY who paints figurative and urban subjects. She received her B.F.A. from the Maryland Institute College of Art and her M.F.A. in painting from Queens College, City University of New York. Her paintings and drawings have been featured in galleries and museums across the country. She is the author of the chapbook Watered Down (Finishing Line Press). More info at: www.vickiebyron.net