Amber Lelli’s sculptures range from playful works that recall dress-up dolls and kids’ toys to colorful abstract affairs that are unmistakably contemporary. But Lelli creates these works using centuries-old bronze-casting and glass-blowing techniques to incorporate unexpected processes and materials into her otherwise up-to-the-minute works. Lelli was paired with Decatur, Ga.-based painter Michelle Armas for their In the Making show at Modfellows back in April. Armas’ totem paintings are vibrant abstract works that use some of the same canvas-dyeing techniques that saw color-field artists overcoming action painters about eight decades ago. The two artists’ works complemented one another, reading like a cohesive whole and demonstrating how art can sometimes move forward even while it’s looking back.
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