HUDSON, NY.- The Nicole Fiacco Gallery presents Synaptic Katharsis, a solo show of recent paintings by the artist Ieva Mediodia (Lithuanian b. 1968), marking the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery. Ieva Mediodia’s exuberant paintings speak to the presence of the mind’s eye – the way in which neurological phenomena interplay with the consciousness of memory and time to form the visual. The artist uses oil, acrylic and airbrush paint in vibrant colors. According to the artist, “…My paintings emerge out of random spills of paint. I find this approach maintains a looseness and fluidity in my work, enacting the motion without a rigid structural logic as manifestation of feminine gesture.” While Mediodia’s work does not represent a particular subject matter or narrative, the imagery links together various art-histories, concepts and experiences. Disparate iconographic im