The artist creates abstract pieces while she travels using gouache, ink, gum arabic and graphite. Her style is very unique and recognizable, like a signature, but also seems to change based on her place and what inspires her while she's exploring the world. One could imagine the small, colorful paper works being blown up into wall art and making a strong decorative statement.
Neysa Grassi's "Untitled (Spain), 2007, gouache on paper."
"Foreign Language," which will also be a traveling exhibition, includes Grassi's work from Ballycastle, Northern Ireland; Majorca, Spain; Maine; Florence, Italy and Philadelphia. Grassi is not only a local artist and Pew Fellowship recipient, she is also a faculty critic for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Rather than the usual Locks Gallery First Friday exhibit debut, "Foreign Language" will be feted with an opening reception on Thursday, April 2, due to the beginning of Passover Friday, April 3.
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