Girl about town
Roxanne Walters, Part 2 Oxford Brookes
...And then I went to “a foreign land”. Sometimes independent exhibitions or shows put on by younger galleries require a certain amount of faith. After all, one is in danger of being forced into the position of comparing one’s own miserable efforts to the dismal works on the wall, only to grimly wonder why it is you don’t have your own exhibition.
But every now and then, you can find a real gem. Take for instance my favourite upstart gallery in Oxford - “Not Famous Yet” (www.notfamousyet.co.uk|) and the work of Artist Julie Monaco.
Besides the fact that the gallery has the avant garde approach of hosting exhibitions in unusual locations (this time a chapel), Julie Monaco generates an immediate cult following.
Csr0/3 © Julie Monaco
The unexpected impact of her dark graphics of hyper intense natural imagery is compelling and it leaves one breathless. Her work is sumptuously presented in both book and enigmatic print on aluminium and diasec. Her foreboding atmospheric images that evoke an ethereal sense of apprehensive angst inspires me to think of (dark) mood, weather, light and somehow my subconscious leans towards creating a building that encapsulates these feelings with the same power and mood Julie does in her work.
Besides the obvious, everyone but everyone should take in at least one of Not Famous Yet’s shows or at least visit them on the web.