One can see in Yvette Gellis’ bold compositions and muscular brush strokes a desire to retain spontaneity while restraining her representational impulses. She goes to the everyday world to find her raw material in the architecture and landscape around her, in the nooks and crannies of man made environments. Gellis collects a body of research through photography, Xeroxes, sketches, finding her approach to the painting while walking the tightrope of reconciling opposites.