Two exhibits opening in Memphis on Friday showcase the work of mother-daughter, father-daughter pairs.
The upcoming exhibit at Harrington Brown Gallery is “Cross Pollination” — a reference to the influence and inspiration passed between Paula Temple and her daughter, Ariel Baron-Robbins. “They both have completely different styles, but they complement each other,” says gallery owner, Rose Harrington Brown.
- Ariel Baron-Robbins
- Gestures
“My daughter has a lot of large figurative work and smaller drawings,” Temple explains. “And she has some very, very new work that I’m hoping we can hang. It’s not very traditional at all— it’s a lot of composite paper pieces that drape on the wall.
- Ariel Baron-Robbins with her new work at the University of Southern Florida.
“On my side, there’s a lot of small pieces that fit together, says Temple. “If you can conceive of each individual piece as a window pane and then grouped together like window panes would hang.” She is also displaying a series of paintings called “Cenote,” which pictures swimmers as seen from the top of a sinkhole in Mexico. “On the Yucatan Peninsula, if you look down off the edge of the sinkholes (they’re called ‘cenotes’) you see the swimmers in the bottom,” says Temple.
“The image of the swimmers is actually very close to the ‘Icarus’ series I did. I’m using people as part of the landscape, swimming in the water or in the sky. I just love the contrast, the image of a human wanting to fly and failing.”
