Artist London Amara "CHAOS" Exhibition Blends Catastrophic Life Events With Chaos Theory

The Sydney Berne & Davis Art Center Presents "CHAOS" Abstract Art Exhibition Through Month Of May, 2013
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PALM HARBOR, Fla. - May 13, 2013 - PRLog -- CHAOS reigned last Friday at The Sydney & Berne Davis Art Center.
Consisting of both regularly-sized and large scale abstracts rendered in black and white, the exhibit features the dramatic work of intensely-driven Tampa area artist London Amara.

The powerful pieces that comprise this exhibit evolved from a series of huge catastrophic events that London prefers not to divulge. "They made me realize I can't control life," she concedes, her eyes circumspectly piercing the shadows in the Davis Art Center's grand atrium. "They forced me to accept chaos as part of life."

She uses the latter term in its scientific sense. Chaos Theory postulates that even small changes in a system can result in very large changes in that system's current behavior. Perhaps Ian Malcolm explained it best when he told Dr. Ellie Sattler during their aborted tour of Jurassic Park that it's the Butterfly Effect. "A butterfly can flap its wings in Peking, and in Central Park you get rain instead of sunshine."


The Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center occupies the neoclassic revival building that once served as the U.S. Post Office and later the federal courthouse.

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Tom Hall, 2012


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Not that London appreciated the cult-film reference. She's never seen the flick.

The idea that seemingly inconsequential changes in initial conditions can have huge impacts later on traces back in time to Aristotle, who observed that “the least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.” While it did not gain popular acceptance in the scientific community until the 1960s, Chaos Theory is used today to study everything from the stock market, to rioting crowds, to brain waves during epilepsy.

And thanks to avant garde thinkers like London Amara, it is now being applied to art.

"Sometimes we author our own disasters," London sagely observes, calling upon her own life lessons. "And sometimes it's the cards we're dealt." Those butterfly wings flapping halfway across the world that we don't know about and cannot predict.

Either way, "the nature of chaos in our lives is inevitable." So rather than fight it, London chooses to incorporate the concept into her mixed media artworks.

From the huge centerpiece canvas hanging on the north wall of the Davis Art Center to the smaller works interspersed throughout the grand atrium, many of Amara's paintings resemble the twisting spirals produced by a Lorenz Attractor, a simplified model of convection in the earth's atmosphere studied by meteorologist Edward N. Lorenz 50 years ago. His chaos-based non-linear differential equations have been employed by digital artists to produce dynamic 3D elliptical models and by sculptor Bathsheba Grossman to produce laser-etched art glass.

But where others use computer technology to emulate chaos-driven vortexes and conical systems, Amara uses her own human bio-computer to create the swirls of convex and concave spirals depicted in her paintings. "I use mark-making as a warm-up," London explains. And for this exhibit, she restricted her palette to graphite, charcoal, enamels and Indian ink in order to inject black-and-white balance into the chaotic iconography she expresses in her work.

Setting process aside, however, what enables this exhibit to sing so melodically to viewers is Amara's willingness to allow the unpredictable, uncontrollable events thathave rocked her young life to drive the evocative, creative process that underlies all good abstract expressionism (http://www.examiner.com/topic/abstract-expressionism). Like her name, her brushwork is bold, wild and uninhibited. Hell, the large canvas hanging from the Davis' rafters even bears traces of tire marks she made doing burn-outs in her driveway to create slapdash, unconstrained marks on the gargantuan support.

"The use of a wide variety of mediums in unconventional ways allows for multiple dynamics and layers of expression," London opines. "This is why abstract art (http://www.examiner.com/topic/abstract-art) can communicate and cross the boundaries of language. In creating art, the true subconscious surfacing to be expressed connects with a vast array of people. Art that is created in raw honesty touches the deepest and most sacred places we as humans encompass."

Chaos will be on exhibit at the Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center (http://www.artswfl.com/galleries/fort-myers-river-distric...) through May 31. The Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center is located at 2301 First Street in the heart of the downtown Fort MyersRiver District (http://www.artswfl.com/uncategorized/an-overview). For more information, please telephone 239-333-1933 or visit www.sbdac.com.

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