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"Artists from the Panhandle provide a different perspective to the Gulf Coast Museum of Art's regional exhibit "Florida Focus." . . ."Cate Wyatt Magalian interprets her surroundings abstractly. VMW, a complex interlock of geometric forms, glows with modulated colors that shift from stark black and white to washes of red, brown and gray, the most beautiful work in the show." LENNIE BENNETT, art critic |
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Cate Woodward's" (Wyatt-Magalian's) "geometrically-shaped canvases remind us of a manufactured external world; inside, microcosms of nature are a foil against harsher linear edges. Her swirling interiors of coagulating abstraction are lyrically encoded with memories of nature-a river bottom, exploding lava, or water-intentionally fluid or stubbornly firm. Sand, vermiculite, pearlite, leaves, bark and netting are familiar ingredients that capriciously meander, absorbing or rejecting any color in their path. Found materials like metal filter grids imprint the surface, creating welcome confrontational dramas within. In the haunting world of Plane 4.9.15.21.27, small doses of seductive reds bleed against soft copper, while an accumulation of rags, fishnet, cloth, and sand forces us to maintain a more material focus. Many of Woodward's" (Wyatt-Magalian's) "works teasingly hint of subliminal content, as in this particular canvas, where an edge-hugging draped 'figure' strays far from nature. It is the artist permitting her abstraction to wander at will that makes Woodward's" (Wyatt-Magalian's) "series so moving." ADRIENNE M. GOLUB, Tampa,
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