ART! Luminous Color at Jessica Hagen Fine Art in Newport

Photo: a portion of Clouds on Water, Leslie Parke (2022) oil on canvas 60” x 96” $35,000

Jessica Hagen Fine Art + Design’s opening of LUMINOUS COLOR, featuring glass artist Steve Easton and painter Leslie Parke took place on May 9. The exhibit continues until June 13.

This two-person exhibition is a celebration of pure, vibrant color. Curated by gallery owner Jessica Hagen, LUMINOUS COLOR takes the viewer on an almost other-worldly journey into the coalescence of transcendent, translucent, and light filled expressions of color in two and three dimensions.

Working in cast glass, artist Steve Easton attended Rhode Island School of Design. Easton describes his work as “a collision between an obsession with art history and a fascination with nature.” The artist creates transparent, color saturated, three-dimensional forms in lead crystal. Motifs include antiquity inspired columns and busts, as well as naturally inspired forms such as eggs and bird’s nests.

Leslie Parke received her BA and MA from Bennington College and has spent fifty years engaged in the practice of painting. Parke’s paintings feature complex layers of color and gesture that are worked until the surface vibrates with an energetic field that reflects and refracts light that has been described as “an Aurora Borealis in a zip-lock bag.” Leslie Parke has work in numerous museum and corporate collections throughout the United States and Europe.

The show will be on display from May 9th through June 13th.

Jessica Hagen Fine Art + Design 9A Bridge Street, Newport RI 02840 – [email protected] or 401-835-7682