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Cerulean Arts presents Material Matters featuring work by Philippa Beardsley, Kathleen Craig and James Rapone. Collage and assemblage allow these artists to be direct and creative through both an expansive, yet focused, artistic means. Philippa Beardsley creates her acrylic and mixed media paintings from memory, based on her experiences walking through Philadelphia. Gestural layers of paint combined with unexpected, non-art materials on box forms give her works a sculptural quality. Kathleen Craig creates collages of abstract still lives, landscapes and figures, from both observation and memory. Working from a selection of cut and pre-painted paper helps her to short circuit preconceived 鈥渁rtistic鈥� notions, especially with reference to color. James Rapone begins his cut paper collages without a specific intention, starting with a blank sheet and scraps of paper. While his main interests are composition, color and line, perceptual space may emerge as well as evocative snippets of information from the component papers. He hopes to draw the viewer in, revealing something of the magic of human experience.