Creative Connection

With its rainbow of colors on matte metal, Let Your Fingers Do the Walking keeps us guessing. The Sandy Winters work challenges the eye to come to terms with curious images that seem to circle both clockwise and counterclockwise in space. Painted forms that could be digits or pigs in a blanket move into and away from the center, where a curious vessel is connected to an adjacent apparatus for reasons unknown.

It seems Winters is testing our sense of humor while assuring us hers is very much intact. She likes the texture of pigment and the way it lies on the sleek metal. Her strokes of paint are lush and colorful. Though the title suggests the painting's tactile nature, to fully enjoy it our synapses must fire to the sections of our brains that archive information about objects, forms, inventions, animations, film, even science fiction.

Winters' works, including an installation that covers two walls, are on display through June 11 at the von Liebig Art Center in downtown Naples.

-Mark Ormond

Mark Ormond is a Southwest Florida art historian and writer.