The deceptive simplicity of Blanche Nettles Powers' Percolations

Savannah art lovers and aficionados will not want to miss the opening reception of new works by painter Blanche Nettles Powers at Laney Contemporary on June 6.

Named Percolate, the show’s title references both Nettles Powers’ thought process and her artistic process. As the press release so beautifully explains, “To percolate is to process, to deliberate, to consider. It is also to slowly drip, to gradually accumulate and layer, and to consciously filter through previous iterations. Through percolation, we might understand a new set of conditions with fresh awareness.”

The recipient of several prestigious residences, Nettles Powers earned a BFA in Illustration and an MFA in Painting from SCAD and an MEd in Art Education from GSU. Born in Rochester, Minnesota, she maintains her studio practice in Savannah and has had solo exhibitions presented by Kim Foster Gallery of New York, Laney Contemporary, and SCAD. I have lived here long enough to remember her beautiful Rosewood Studio Gallery beside Savannah Fire's historic headquarters on Oglethorpe Avenue (home from 2005-2008 while she was getting her MFA), and her next space at 1704 Lincoln. Her newest studio consists of two rooms  in an historic district rowhouse where paintings in progress hang on the wall or are mounted on small wooden brackets, and where both the floor and  walls reveal drips and splashes from the many layers of paints she painstaking applies to her hand stretched linen canvases.

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