Art Exhibit: Louis Delegato

The West Linn Public Library will host an exhibit featuring the work of Louis Delegato during the month of May. The exhibit will run May 4-29 in the library's Community Room which is open to the public when not in use, and always open on Sundays, noon – 5:00 p.m.

Louis Delegato is a painter and sculptor. He feels that making a painting is much more an emotional expression than creating sculpture because of the instantaneous nature of mark-making. His sculpture is a highly-planned and laborious process of an intellectual expression, while his paintings are records of action with very little boundary or rule. Both endeavors focus on a balance of elements and strong relationships between the "foreground" and "background" representing the dualistic nature of reality and the harmony of such.

Delegato's work is abstract, demonstrating that the same object approached from different perspectives yields very different perceptions. One person might see some white scribbles on a black surface and relate to the aesthetic variances of the marks, while another person might see the scrawled mathematical formula and appreciate the fluidity of the phrase. Someone else might see a black board that needs to be cleaned. Delegato's goal is to "de-objectify" the object and expose the reflective nature of distinction.