Double Take
DelBarton School | Morristown, NJ | Nov. 2017
“Double Take presents the work of Caitlin Servilio and Terri Fraser produced during an artistic dialogue that took place over the past several months. Working side by side, en plein air, the artists depicted rural scenes from different locations in central and northern New Jersey. At times they painted the same subject matter, at other times they simply painted within in the presence of one another. And when it wasn’t convenient to work outside, the painters continued the dialogue by exchanging photographs . . .
The landscapes in this exhibition are organized in paired units, allowing us to examine how each painter handled the same en plein air session or photograph. Many of the canvases, at first glance, appear deceptively similar, but the careful viewer will discover crucial and astonishing differences. Servilio’s paintings glow in the most unexpected places, in the cracks between a clump of rocks, in the reflective undulations of water, behind a series of haloed trees. The paintings have an otherworldly quality about them, evocative of Servilio’s ambition to view nature through the unmediated lens of a person seeing the world for the first time . . . ”
