Prisms of Perception, an Art Exhibition with Materese Roche and Charles Katzenbach

Lambertville, NJ, April 11, 2009 --(PR.com)-- Prisms of Perception at the Artists’ Gallery

The first show of the Artists’ Gallery’s season features two artists working on separate planes, with different visions who are bound by parallels in techniques and the ability to draw the viewer into their work. The Charles Katzenbach and Materese Roche show “Prisms of Perception” opens Friday, April 10th, and the artist’s reception will be held on Saturday, April 18th from 6:00 to 9:00 pm. The exhibit runs through May 3rd, 2009.

For Katzenbach and Roche, visual depth and interest is achieved through the use of multiple layers of shifting light and colors, lending atmosphere and movement to their work.

Katzenbach creates abstract paintings with oil on the surfaces of glass or mirrors, often using multiple panes to increase the depth and complexity of the image. Colors and shapes shift as one moves around the work, literally playing with the viewer’s perceptions. His work has been referred to as “a legal high with paint, color and light as stimulus”.

Katzenbach studied art at Princeton University with Spanish abstract expressionist painter Esteban Vicente and master potter Toshiko Takaezu, then afterward at the New York Studio School. Featured in “New Art International” 2004, he has exhibited throughout the Northeast.

Roche paints in a contemporary representational manner, but like Katzenbach, she is fascinated with the play of natural light and atmosphere and how opposing forces in a painting can create a sensation of vibration or tranquility, depending upon the subject. For Roche, the driving force is to pull you into the subject and create within you a specific feeling – from the cool morning air and shimmering light in Northern Maine to the sensation of mist at it flows through a grove of bamboo.

Roche studied with several renowned Bucks County artists and attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Her work has appeared in Phillips Mill, The Newman Galleries in Philadelphia and several invitational shows throughout Bucks County. She is an elected member of the Philadelphia Sketch Club and serves on its Board of Directors.

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