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Sarasota News Leader December 6, 2013 Page 120 GALLUP GALLERY PRESENTS WORKS BY POINDEXTER AND COE Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art gallery is presenting Above the Planet Through A Microscope, featuring paintings and works on paper by Carla Poindexter, and Lossless: Paintings by Dolores Coe, both through Dec. 28. A reception with the artists will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Dec. 13. "Carla constructs a fascinating world of characters and signs interacting in vast fields of micro and macro space that are both private and collective," says Allyn Gallup, director of the gallery, in a news release. "She has a lifelong interest in the relationship between science and the humanities and engages us The Juggle by Dolores Coe. Contributed photo in a profound exploration of how space and if Coe's paintings were a movie, they'd be a form parallel human thought and emotion." road picture," the release notes. "She entices The show includes eight large-scale acrylic the viewer into a journey through fantastipaintings on canvas and 12 smaller, hand-col- cal landscapes, crowded with fragments of ored copperplate monoprints. According iconic, American roadside imagery." to Poindexter, "these paintings reflect her explorations of contemporary physics from So why is the exhibit titled Lossless? a visually metaphorical point of view, reflect- "'Lossless' is actually a tech term," Coe ing current conversations involving chaos explains in the release. "It refers to a type of theory and quantum mechanics," the release data compression in which the original data adds. "I'm consumed by how we continuously can be perfectly reconstructed." endeavor to understand and respond to science and poetry, language and movement, But in regard to her art, the term has a double time and space, and all manner of enigmatic meaning, the release adds. "I see painting as human causes and effects," says Poindexter. a form of data compression; I recombine the She adds that the 12 interconnected hand-col- fragmented images of memory and fantasy ored monoprints were influenced by the in imaginary landscapes to convey a sense of Japanese proverb, "When good luck comes to inner and outer experience," Coe says in the the door, it is often accompanied by devils." release. "Growing up in Florida, I was conDolores Coe is a painter, digital media artist stantly steeped in an awareness of migration and former Ringling College professor who and change, what remains and what had been maintains a home and studio on the Little erased." Manatee River south of Tampa, the release continues. "Her intrigue with the mind's The gallery is located at 1288 N. Palm Ave. power to distill experience into stories is a in Sarasota. For more information, visit constant undercurrent in her imagery. And www.allyngallup.com.