Anelle Gandelman Fine Art Artists (9)
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PAST EXHIBITION
Uncommon Ground
June 21, 2008—August 9, 2008
Press Release
Anelle Gandelman Fine Art is pleased to present Uncommon Ground: an
exhibition featuring paintings by Jackie Battenfield, Andrea Bonfils, Linda Nisselson, and Susan Sharp. The show will open with a reception on Saturday, June 21, 6pm - 8pm and run through August 9, 2008.
The exhibition brings together paintings by four woman artists that reference landscape in their work. However, none of the paintings are traditional landscapes, instead each artist translates the subject in a distinct and unique way.
Jackie Battenfield works in acrylic and chine colle on canvas. Her works are marked by silhouetted forms in the foreground, like branches and leaves, over gestural backgrounds. She often introduces abstract forms and bands of color that lend an Asian sensibility to her pieces. Of her works she says, "Each image captures a single moment, while reflecting all moments." Battenfield is a mid-career artist, whose work can be found in collections such as the New York Public Library, NY, the US Department of State, Washington DC, Dow Jones & Co. Inc., Princeton, NJ, and Hong Kong Regent Hotel, Hong Kong among others.
Andrea Bonfils works in oil and encaustic which gives her work a sensual surface. Bonfils relates her vision of the dramatic, mysterious and ethereal subjects that surround her daily. In the manner of the master American landscape painters she uses a variety of painting techniques such as glazes to achieve different surface textures. Her work has been featured in several publications, including Connecticut Cottages and Gardens, Upscale Living, and Coastal Living Magazine.
In contrast to Bonfils' impressionistic works, Linda Nisselson creates abstract paintings that only hint at landscape. She says, "The process starts with a visual connection to the landscape, but at some point the painting takes on a life of its own and the creative impulse is reflected in the color the paint handling, and the markings". The exhibit will include an installation of her small square modular works as well as stand alone pieces. Nisselson received her graduate degree from Columbia University, NY. Her work is in numerous corporate collections, such as Citibank, IBM and Pepsico and she has received several reviews in The New York Times. Susan Sharp's work is inspired by topological imagery, and is the most abstract of all four artists.
Her fluid works are composed of intricate layers and sinuous lines. The suggestive compositions are personal topographies, often executed in multiple panels. Like the other artists, her work is represented in numerous public and private collections, such as Chase Manhattan Bank, NY, and General Electric Corp., CT. Sharp has also exhibited at museums, including a solo exhibition at the Housatonic Museum of Art, CT.
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