Form+Content Gallery is pleased to present To the River, an exhibition of new oil stick drawings by Joyce Lyon. The river is the Tiber / il Tevere, which passes below the Umbrian town in Italy where the artist spends time each year. In these large-scale oil stick works, Lyon responds to an unusual aqua color of the water – is it an effect of light, or sediment or something shifting in the environment? The road leading to the river is Roman, more than 2,000 years old. Ivy grows up many of the trees, altering their profile when seen against a bright sky. She meditates on the ancient history of this place and its present life and on the ability of drawn and verbal languages to communicate experience.
