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February 27 to May 31, 2022
This show can also be seen in-person at: Manhattan’s 53rd Street Branch, NYPL across the street from the Museum of Modern Art:
18 West 53rd Street
New York, NY 10019
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oil on canvas 24 x 18 x 0.7" I am a contemporary artist, whose style could be described as a blend of symbolism and surrealism. My goal is to bring dreams and creativity into physical reality. My artworks are characterized by vibrant colors, a balance between light and darkness and neat brushstrokes. I take my time to accurately compose the characters, so they could elegantly express their emotional experience. I am influenced by the old masters like Thomas Gainsborough and his remarkably delicate feminine characters, and by surrealists like Frida Kahlo, and her expression of pain and passion. My main medium is oil on canvas. I am experimenting with watercolors and ink pen as well.
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pencil and colored pencil on pages of an old cookbook 17.5 x 21.5" The work is a drawing of my mother in her WWII Royal Air Force Bomber Command uniform. Instead of drawing paper, I used pages from 'The Settlement Cookbook,' a guide she was given to teach her how to be a 'good American housewife' upon arriving in the U.S as a war bride. I drew her military logo with its words "strike shard and strike sure' floating to the right of her portrait. On the left, an old-fashioned stocking clip hangs like a war medal. Red stitches are drawn to represent the "woman's work" of her new assigned role in America.
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print on paper 14.5 x 6" When I turned 50 and was forced to spend a lot of time in doctor’s offices and hospital waiting rooms, I began cutting images out of magazines – that was the beginning of becoming a serious artist. I took classes and created intricate collages. Eventually I began experimenting with other materials and techniques. I also began studying with instructors who encouraged me to be creative and follow my own ideas. The images in this show were inspired by family and friends -- my Aunt Mary who loved butterflies and nature, my friend Stephanie who encouraged me to fight for women's rights, and my teacher Martha who helped me explore new materials and techniques.
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oil on canvas 26 x 22 x 2" Part of my Conversation Pieces series, this is a piece about the expressiveness of our hands as we converse with one another. I made up the green rings, because I liked the sound of it for the title. The Conversation, painting suggests a conversation as one sits across the table from someone, implying a relationship between viewer and figure. There is also a connection with the viewer in the familiar habit of shared coffee. When I have my coffee, experiencing warmth on my hands, how many others are doing the same thing? What is familiar are gestures of hands--as stories are told--there is an underlying drama in the human exchange.
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watercolor 11 x 10 x 2" My watercolor paintings and graphite drawings celebrate the beauty I find in the world. I work in the tradition of the great British watercolorists, layering layer upon layer with pigment and or graphite to build depth and dimension in each composition. First Snow captures a moment in time in the relationship between owner and pet linked together in the quiet of the snow.
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archival digital photograph on paper 16 x 22" These days I find myself exploring life's choices. I see another's world in this their moment in time and reflect on the choices, the dreams, the desires that have lead them here. These moments capture my imagination leaving me wanting to know more, moments I hope to share along the way.
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acrylic on stretched canvas 30 x 24 x 1.5" My artwork features a vibrant color palette, body language, and movement in abstract scenes of women. As I apply layers of charcoal and acrylic paint, figures are revealed and their stories emerge. My inspiration is rooted in my work as a somatic psychotherapist. It was a privilege to co-create healing spaces with women. as their narratives unfolded and we processed them together. These deeply personal moments and rich interior worlds, theirs and mine, are an ongoing theme in my paintings.
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oil on canvas 30 x 24" The painting Light in Darkness is a picture of my premonition of great trials that were awaited me ahead. The picture was painted in 2014 and it is my prediction for myself of great challenges in the future associated with saving a child from the inhuman Russian state machine and war.
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mixed media: collage with beads, tassels, string, and other found objects 12 x 12 x 1" My portraits and figurative collages (some with mixed media) of women are formed out of patterned and hand-painted papers, magazine pictures, acrylic paint, and ink, and may include found objects. They are colorful and have an element of whimsy and suggest attitudes and other aspects of personality that tell a visual story. I'm passionate about Folk/Outsider art and children's drawings, and they are my primary influences.
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egg tempera on wood 14 x 11" A portrait in traditional egg tempera of a young art student connects the contemporary urban aestetic with the idealized portraiture of the High Rennaissance, commissioned to decorate lavish palazzos’ chambers of the nobility. The sword earring indicates the rebellious loyalty to the virtues of the humanistic ideals.
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applique and embroidery on denim 12 x 9"
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acrylic and paper on canvas 48 x 24 x 1.5" March 2020 is the artist's story of her emotional response to the Pandemic that began in March of 2020. The subtitle is Don't Look Down It's a Long, Long Way to Fall. The title and subtitle as well as the four figures clinging to the sides of a crevice are intended to convey the instability and helplessness she experienced during the initial lockdown in New York City.
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oil on canvas 16 x 20 x 2" Caring for Children: Bernadette hugs little Hugh with one arm, while holding on to Madison with the other. I am drawn to the physicality of this scene. The grandmother buries her face in the boy's hair. You can sense her joy in being so close. The older sister, sticking her finger in her mouth smiles delightedly. Jerry, and I are feeling so lucky! Stopping, over for a visit, they made this afternoon in July, truly wonderful.
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photography 20 x 15 x 1" A tale of roaming freely through experiences, the landscapes of memory are recalled. Bits and pieces of dreams long ago nicknamed - a pencil cup of dreams. A release occurs unexpectedly. A letting go of all the things a restless soul moved from, and instead, moves toward. A presence is found that is within us - after all is said and done.
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acrylic on canvas 20 x 16" I have been working on a Strong Women series, searching for images of women, writers and artists from the past, who have inspired me through their talent, resilience against various forms of cultural adversity and their singular vision. I find there is an intuitive vitality in approaching each subject--a kind of creative sisterhood if you will, that connects us from the first brushstroke to the finish.
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mixed media, relief print, pencil, collage 14 x 14 x 1" Combining vintage photos of older women from the 1960’s, old maps, and other paper ephemera under a matrix of relief printed houses communicate an imagined history of the Cold War, and who the unsung prime movers might have been.“Women of a certain age” have the misfortune of becoming invisible in society, but what if they used that to their advantage? A good spy is unremarkable looking, able to move freely and unnoticed, and in this case, thwarting Communism after WWII. There are cut away areas, windows to another layer, a suggestion that there is more to be revealed, and, that a house may seem simple on the surface, but hide secrets inside. The simple house shape reinforces the notion that these ladies are just typical housewives, nothing to worry about.
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