PASSING LANDSCAPES
OCTOBER 2000
Hatch Takes Some New Directions, by David Dodd Lee
…In her latest exhibit, "Secret Gardens and Passing Landscapes at the Park Gallery, Hatch presents some familiar elements but also takes off in new directions…
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MARY HATCH
Passing Landscape #1,
oil on sheet canvas, 6" x 8" (matt 17" x19") SOLD
Passing Landscape #2,
oil on sheet canvas, 6" x 8" (matt 17" x19") SOLD
Passing Landscape #3,
oil on sheet canvas, 6" x 8" (matt17" x19") SOLD
Passing Landscape #4,
oil on sheet canvas, 6" x 8" (matt 17" x19") SOLD
Passing Landscape #5,
oil on sheet canvas, 6" x 8" (matt 17" x19") SOLD
Passing Landscape #6,
oil on sheet canvas, 6" x 8" (matt 17" x 19") SOLD
Passing Landscape #7,
oil on sheet canvas, 6" x 8" (matt 17" x 19") SOLD
Passing Landscape #8,
oil on sheet canvas, 6" x 8" (matt 17" x 19") SOLD
Passing Landscape #9,
oil on sheet canvas, 6" x 8" (matt 17" x 19") SOLD
Passing Landscape #10,
oil on sheet canvas, 6" x 8" (matt 17" x 19")
Passing Landscape #13,
oil on sheet canvas, 6" x 8" (matt 17" x 19") SOLD
Passing Landscape #14,
oil on sheet canvas, 6" x 8" (matt 17" x 19") SOLD
Passing Landscape #16,
oil on sheet canvas, 6" x 8" (matt 17" x 19")
Passing Landscape #18,
oil on sheet canvas, 6" x 8" (matt 17" x 19") SOLD
Passing Landscape #20,
oil on sheet canvas, 6" x 8" (matt 17" x 19")
…Finally, wonderfully, Hatch has painted a series of very small landscapes.
These are breathlessly confident works, as deft as a work by Franz Kline,
as luminous as a painting by Mark Rothko. In "Passing Landscape #2," shrubs
seem to float in a sea of flaming orange and pink grasses. And the horizon
is alive with the dark, shadowy presence of spruces, loosely and skillfully
painted beneath a glowing blue sky that cuts a slashing diagonal across
the small work's surface.
There are seven of these landscape paintings, and they ring
with signs of human presence that nature simply bleeds through. And Hatch's
calligraphic and slapdash paint handling is loose and authoritative. These
small paintings alone are worth a visit to the Park Gallery.
But go for all of it. Go to see one of our best local artists spreading her wings, sometimes falling, sometimes flying.