Press Release

NEW ORLEANS --- Heriard-Cimino Gallery presents Excavations, a new suite of paintings by Regina Scully.  A reception to meet the artist will be held on Saturday, August 1, 2009 from 6 to 9 p.m. in conjunction with White Linen Night. The public is invited.  The exhibition will be on view from August 1 - September 2, 2009.  Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday 10 to 5, or by appointment.

Regina Scully’s new series of paintings are highly detailed compositions, her visual language choreographed with rhythm and movement. The paintings are reflections on civilization in contemporary, dense and multi-faceted environments, beauty among rubble.  Initially the work projects fragmentation, yet underlying structural forms and intriguing colors create a counterpoint of harmony.  There is a desire to follow the myriad pathways and directions, to go inside the paintings, either to explore the remnants of objects, or follow the rhythms of the work.

Intuitive mark-making such as thick, bold and the most delicate of lines are created with an almost stream-of-consciousness array of imagery.  Scully states, “I have been excavating the images of my subconscious more thoroughly in these works.  Many of the shapes and marks have appeared in my drawings and paintings for years.  In these paintings objects, spaces and events collide and detach, connect and disconnect.  Forms and space are also sliced through and fragmented.  At the same time, with color, pattern, whimsical line and fantastical bits of imagery, I intend to generate a feeling of accord and even delight, like an uplifting melody, which emerges and hides and emerges again in an atmosphere of dissonance.”

Regina Scully was born in Norfolk, Virginia and received her B.F.A. in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design. After living in Providence, she moved to New York for five years before moving to New Orleans in 2003.  She has exhibited in Providence, Rhode Island, Fitchburg Art Museum in MA, Brooklyn, New York and numerous group exhibitions in New Orleans. She is currently in the M.F.A. Program at the University of New Orleans.  This is Regina Scully’s first solo exhibition at Heriard-Cimino Gallery.