Roswitha Huber: Paintings, Opening at The Nevin Kelly Gallery November 5, 2005

NEVIN KELLY GALLERY presents solo exhibition of new works by German artist ROSWITHA HUBER, from November 5 through November 30, 2005.

RECEPTION WITH THE ARTIST: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, FROM 5:00 UNTIL 8:00, P.M. AT 1517 U STREET, NW, WASHINGTON, DC. PUBLIC INVITED.

The Nevin Kelly Gallery is pleased to announce Roswitha Huber?s return to Washington, DC. The artist participated in the gallery?s six-artist ?Art Cabinet Nantucket in Washington? exhibition in November 2003, a cooperative exhibition that introduced six of the Art Cabinet Nantucket?s top artists to the Washington, DC area. The Art Cabinet Nantucket (ACN) is one of New England?s premier art galleries, serving some of America?s top art collectors.

Ms. Huber is a native of Munich, Germany. She attended the California College of Arts and Crafts in San Francisco and the Academies of Fine Arts in Nuremburg and Munich, Germany. She also participated in the Anderson Ranch program in Snowmass, Colorado. She has won numerous awards for her work, including the Hypobank Award for Young Artists in 1993, the Siemens Award for Young Artists in 1998 and the Art Award of the City of Ulm, Germany, in 1997.

Huber?s style is abstract and emotional. It is sometimes bold and sometimes quiet. She uses a unique mixture of media in her paintings, frequently combining media (such as oil-based and water-based paints) that conflict with each other and form patterns and textures that are characteristic to Huber?s work. Although the artist is in constant control, she is not rigid. Her style is intuitive and experimental, communicating the artist?s inner-energy to the canvas in compositions that seem to shift over time to reflect changes in the artist?s mood.

In the exhibition?s catalogue, art historian and author Iris Schmeisser writes: ?Organic forms and natural materials, arranged and combined as ?shifting fields? of color, reign supreme in Roswitha Huber?s most recent paintings: fields of color, ascending and descending in tone, border on each other in shifting patterns of consonance and dissonance . . . . The difference in media that the artist chooses to combine in her work is of critical importance. Her deliberate choice of disparate liquids, such as oil and vinegar or extremely different materials such as acrylic and watercolor, provide room for the accidental in her work as colors, to a certain degree, work independently with and against each other on canvas.?

There is nothing, however, accidental about Huber?s strong sense of composition. Her paintings are both controlled and flexible to the changes that play out before the artist?s eyes, a process that Schmeisser labels ?self-reflective,? the result of balancing ?the simultaneity of control and improvisation.?

Gallery owner Nevin J. Kelly explains Huber as his choice for his fall season?s final exhibition. ?Roswitha Huber works masterfully. Her paintings are magnificent in their color, energy and composition. They are excellent in every respect. They are beautiful and spiritual.?

Kelly explains that ?Huber is a rising star in the art world. She has been widely exhibited, and her paintings are sought after by a number of very important collectors. We are very pleased to host Roswitha?s first Washington-area solo exhibition, and very pleased to cooperate once again with the Art Cabinet Nantucket in bringing bright new talent to the Washington area.?

Huber has exhibited in the U.S., Austria, Italy, Switzerland and her native Germany.

Images of Huber?s work may currently be viewed on the ACN?s website at www.artcabinet.com. They will soon be available on the Nevin Kelly Gallery?s website, www.nevinkellygallery.com.