(SPARKILL, NY - September 27, 2006) - St. Thomas Aquinas College's Azarian-McCullough Art Gallery will display Jeramy Turner's show, titled "Blood and Oil Paintings", from October 8 through November 5. The Gallery will host an Artist's Reception on Sunday, October 15, from 2-5 p.m. announced Dr. Carl Rattner, the A.M.A.G. Director. The show is free to the community.
Turners's art may remind some of Hieronymus Bosch, the 16th C. Dutch painter whose work is said to have inspired the Surrealists. Her imagery similarly distorts reality with figures that are part human and part animal, and often engaged in some sort of nightmarish activity. Most works picture a rather bleak world, but several suggest a light at the end of this road to perdition.
Turner's work is decidedly sensational, but not gratuitously so. The artist is serious about her art and its collective message of indictment.
"I am compelled as I paint to expose as vividly as I can the underside of power; the absurdity, the obesity, the impotence, and then the utter blindness on the part of the rulers to the remarkable realm of human capacity. All of this I want to expose bare naked and glaring in its clarity," said Turner.
Regular gallery hours are: Mondays and Wednesday from 2-4 p.m., Thursdays from 12-2 p.m., and Sundays from 2-5 p.m. For more information or for other times for groups, call the AMAG at
845-398-4195.