Annemieke Alberts and Maya Sikorska: Portraits of Perception and Place

Annemieke Alberts returns for a second month at Victory, sharing the gallery with emerging Polish artist Maya Sikorska. Sikorska’s oil paintings employ a foggy, faded palette appropriate to their subject matter: portraits and groupings of figures whose faces are as grainy and blue as stone-washed denim. You can almost hear the Beatles’ “Nowhere Man” in your inner iPod when you encounter the pieces Jurek, Adam, Gabriel and Boys, in which amorphous blobs of color clump together, loosely depicting slumped shoulders and downward-cast eyes. Yes, these sad-sack studies are relevant to the human condition, but they’re also soul-leachingly depressing. This is a worthwhile show, but you might want to pop a Zoloft before you see it. Through Sept. 30.

 

Where: Victory Gallery
Address: 733 NW Everett St.
Website: www.victorygallery.com