Marjorie Sayers: Portraits in Motion and Light. November 2008 at C.X. Silver Gallery in Brattleboro, Vermont. A video view of the exhibition, by Adam Silver. For further information on the paintings, contact Marjorie at marjorie.sayer@gmail.com. For more information on the C.X. Silver Gallery, contact Adam at cxsilvergallery@verizon.net. Vermont gave me time to get back to my art, says Marjorie Sayer: My focus and intent is developing and exploring ways to experiment with the figure in different spatial relationships; uncovering and then losing the figure to become one with the texture of the background, using light and dark to create depth of space. I have always been drawn to the figure. Sayer combines an analytic and intellectual investigation into the forms of the body which can either be in repose or in motion. "I love the expressive, tactile quality that I arrive at by using Impasto oil paint applied with a palette knife. The creation of the painting is rapid, and the result is texture and exhilaration," she says. Her response to both the figure and to landscape is immediate. It is visceral. Charcoal highlights the gesture in mark making. Her paintings negotiate the complicated intersections between abstract and the figure. "I want the figure to exist and be recognizable but gradually become more abstract by bold strokes of color and gesture," Sayer says. "The finished paintings are a result of numerous layers creating a sense of tension between areas of lightness and heaviness, and between barely visible outlines of body parts and planes of color." Marjorie studied with Tim Harney at the DeCordova Museum School in Lincoln, MA. At Cornell, she experimented with the figure through woodcuts, monotints, and pastel as well as oil. Ms. Sayer received her BFA from Cornell University, with a semester abroad at the University of Florence, Italy. She studied for her Masters in History of Art at New York University and the University of Munich, Germany; and painted at Arts Students League in New York City. Before moving to Vermont, she did research at the Wildenstein Gallery in New York. Among her exhibitions, Sayer was recently featured in the show, Illuminations at Massachusetts General Hospitals Cancer Center and at Windham Art Gallery, Brattleboro. C.X. Silver Gallery presents extraordinary contemporary art and artists that draw from both the traditional and the avant-garde. Founded in 2006 in Brattleboro, Vermont, this gallery of fine art promotes creative work that challenges, and has relevance for, modern-day conceptions. Painting, sculpture, photography, mixed media, and installation are promoted through cxsilvergallery.com.