Five Reasons to Visit Lower Oak Lawn this Weekend

My Dallas show made the top 5  list to visit Lower Oak Lawn this weekend, coming in at number 3.

Article by Kendall Shiffler.

#3. Get your art on at Nicola Parente’s Exhibit Opening at Gremillion 

Take a breather from your day of exploring the district by checking out LOL’s newest art exhibit, Edge of Awaking by Nicola Parente. The Houston-based artist, inspired by the words of Henry David Thoreau, embraces negative space to evoke a sense of limitlessness.

n the paintings comprising the series, Parente embraces negative space to evoke a sense of limitlessness. On a predominantly white ground, lines of black and intermittent color appear and re-appear in ever-changing intervals and variant shades whose only clear boundary is the edge of the medium.

Parente works from his studio in Houston, Texas. Born in Italy, he draws from a rich Italian heritage and a deep well of cross-cultural experiences to bring his art to life. Most recently, Parente’s work was selected for Texas Art 2010 juried exhibition. In 2009, his work was featured in an exhibition, Transparent/Translucent, at the Museum Gallery, University of Texas, in San Antonio. 

To The Edge by Alex Copeland, Dallas Observer

There is a hazy, oppressive boundary between awake and asleep that many of us struggle through each morning, whether it's the groggy, pre-coffee sleepwalk or the stubborn fight between a person's obligations and his under-rested body. This half-awake state is the subject of Houston-based Italian artist Nicola Parente’s  series of paintings in Edge of Awakening, a new exhibit at the Gremillion &Co. Fine Art gallery. The exhibit showcases Parente's expressive abstract paintings that transition between darkness and light, interrupted only by the boundaries of the canvas itself.