Your couch, coffee cup and clutter tell more about you then you may think. The seemingly ordinary items and their surroundings, depicted in Matt Klos? and Vincent Hron?s paintings on view in Ellicott City, surprisingly sooth spectators while allowing them to ponder on who lives in the painted rooms.
Klos, a Baltimore artist and Anne Arundel Community College instructor, hopes viewers will enjoy the stillness in his paintings and subsequently, “find quiet moments in every day environments.”
The way light plays on objects and changes subtly over the course of time interests Klos, he said. “[My work] is a study of light through the lens of these objects.”
To compose his paintings, Klos continually marks his canvas and then compares the marks to reality, he said. “In one sense, my style is an accumulative range of marks.”
Beside Klos? calming works in “Interiors” are Hron’s inviting depictions, where any number of narratives could be plausible.
The painting?s open-ended storylines allow viewers to ?choose their own adventure? while interpreting the scene as they would like.
“I think [this style] is a lot more true to life,” Hron explained. “No story is seen from one perspective. Each interior is a little stage set for something that might have happened or could have happened.”
Hron, a contemporary realist, relies on sketches and digital pictures of ordinary, yet visually peculiar places to compose his oil and acrylic paintings.
“I think of interiors as portraits of the people who live in those spaces,” said Hron, an Art professor at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania. “Interiors have items in them with animated qualities. These elements have a life of their own.”
IF YOU GO
Interiors
» Where: Howard County Center for the Arts, Gallery II, 8510 High Ridge Road, Ellicott City
» When: Through April 25
» Info: 410-313-2787,
A free reception including light refreshmets and live music will be held 5 p.m. April 4.
