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
