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lynne golob gelfman: scapes

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lynne golob gelfman: scapes

The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum

Florida International University, Miami

Opening:  May 16, 2012 / 6-9 pm

May 16, 2012 – September 2, 2012

Lynne Golob Gelfman makes abstract paintings that are rooted in the visible world.  She identifies and isolates textures, forms or patterns, either natural or manmade, then repeats them to create compositions that seem as if they could flow forever in all directions. In recent years, inspired by morning walks along the Miami shore, she has been making works that evoke the reflection of light on water. But as a result of their repetitive markings, her works become as much about the process of their own making as about any outside source.

The works in the exhibition scapes refer to landscape but do not represent it. Instead, they suggest a sense of place.

In the most recent series, the dune paintings, the surface image changes with the slightest shift either in the viewer’s position or in the angle of light. These paintings, which are never the same nor fixed in time, offer an experience of perception- what happens when the viewer traverses the image.

The dune series was inspired by hiking through the undulating dunes of Lençóis Maranhenses, Brazil and seeing sand always moving in the play of wind and sun.

In scapes, Gelfman’s images lead beyond the referential and into an awareness of the elemental.

image: dune 25, 2011. metallic and acrylic paint. 48 x 48 inches.  one painting seen from four angles of light

www.lynnegolobgelfman.com

hafif

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… 1975 Ink Drawings and a photo series titled Pomona Houses from 1970.

The Ink Drawings were painted using a practice developed during the making of the Pencil Drawings, 1972, always beginning in the upper left corner and finishing in the lower right. The support and medium change while the technique remains the same. Here the ink mixture is more or less diluted, with darker and lighter results. The technique is based on the idea that repetition will produce changing results; the titles of the drawings are the date of completion – a record of the day’s work.

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Pomona Houses was shot in California in 1970 and published in 1972 in a book by Mother Lode Editions to accompany an exhibition of projected color slides of houses at the Ivan Karp Gallery in SoHo. The current show includes all forty-five photographs from the book framed and displayed at eye level in their original order.

Marcia Hafif lives between New York City and Laguna Beach, California. This fall her work was part of Pacific Standard Time’s Best Kept Secret, UCI and the Development of Contemporary Art in Southern California, 1964-1971 at the Laguna Art Museum, CA. Hafif’s Italian Paintings, 1961-1969, are on display at MAMCO in Geneva accompanied by a catalogue raisonne of Hafif’s sixties paintings.

For further information and images please contact the gallery at contact@npgallery.com.

Exhibition dates: February 23 – April 14, 2012