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SUMMARY:Susan McAlister: Canopy
DESCRIPTION:Press ReleaseExhibition WorksInstallation Shots\n				\n				\n					\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Les Yeux du Monde is thrilled to announce Canopy\, an exhibition of new work by celebrated gallery artist Susan McAlister. Guided by a profound reverence for the natural world\, Susan McAlister’s work speaks to the sacred nature of place and the layered histories of a given site. \nMcAlister’s process\, deeply rooted in the tradition of en plein air\, begins outdoors as she sketches\, paints\, and collects artifacts\, which then inform her studio practice. Found materials from the outdoors in her Canopy works include: charcoal left from a wildfire\, soil from several significant historic sites\, feathers\, insects and shapes taken from a myriad of storm-felled trees. \nThe multidimensional assemblages McAlister makes with these found artifacts become both beautiful artistic expressions and captivating records of the places that inspired them. The artist’s abstract works are similarly conceived and grounded\, beginning with forms she gathers from the outdoors. Dances of color and shape\, these pieces evoke the patterns\, rhythms\, and motion of nature\, and communicate the essence of the places from which they came. In her richly layered and textured landscapes\, McAlister conveys the interplay of color\, light\, and atmosphere in ways that foster profound appreciation for the natural world. \nPer the artist\, “This exhibition\, ‘Canopy’ is an ‘ode’ to forests past and present. It considers the majesty of an uncut or virgin forest; the wonder of regeneration; the tragedy of an untamed wildfire… I am continually astonished by nature and the sanctuary it provides my heart\, mind and soul. It seems important in the light of the global climate shifts occurring all around us to honor these treasured but fragile spaces.” \nSusan McAlister earned her B.A. from Davidson College\, where she studied alongside numerous esteemed artists including Herb Jackson and Eric Aho. In the coming months\, she will be exhibiting in Homecoming\, a show of work by distinguished alumni artists at Davidson College on view from October 12 – December 7\, 2023. Her work can be found in significant public and private collections throughout the US. \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n\nPlease enable JavaScript to view the artwork.
URL:https://www.lydmgallery.com/events/susan-mcalister-canopy/
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SUMMARY:Monica Angle\, Heather Beardsley\, Michelle Gagliano\, Kris Iden: Organic Matter
DESCRIPTION:Press ReleaseExhibition WorksInstallation Shots\n				\n				\n					\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Les Yeux du Monde is pleased to present Organic Matter\, an exhibition of new work by Monica Angle\, Heather Beardsley\, Michelle Gagliano\, and Kris Iden. Each of these artists contemplates the natural world from a distinct point of view in their work\, often allying subject with medium through the use of natural materials. \nMonica Angle’s artistic practice combines painting and printmaking techniques to evoke the feeling of particular natural locales or topographies. Grounded in Angle’s observations of the physical world\, her interpretative landscapes also rely on personal memories and apoetic imagination to convey her experience of a place. Beginning with monoprint processes\, the artist first applies watercolor paint to glass\, which she transfers onto paper\, fabric\, or wood panels. Through the repetition of this process\, color is built up and its component watery traces as it moves across the glass plate are captured\, creating a visual map of its motion\, pathways\, and clearings that suggest alandscape. Angle received her undergraduate degree from Harvard\, an M.S. in Geography from Pennsylvania State University\, and did her graduate work in Printmaking and Bookmaking at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She has exhibited works extensively\, including in solo exhibitions at the Burchfield Penney\, SUNY Buffalo State\, and the Fralin Museum of Art. Her artwork can be found in notable collections private and public\, including that of the Burchfield Penney. \nHeather Beardsley’s interdisciplinary practice bridges the realms of art and science. Playing with scientific display conventions\, the artist imitates the style of high-tech visualizations such as spectrographs and 3D printing through low-tech craft media like modeling clay\, cyanotypes\, and embroidery. Beardsley’s artwork raises important questions about the impact of industrialization on the natural world and explores the concept of ruins and abandoned structures as agents of intergenerational communication. Per Beardsley\, “Looking at my work\, I want people to ask: Can the damage we’ve done be reversed? What will the world look like without us? And how long will evidence of our civilizations remain?” Heather Beardsley holds a B.A. in Studio Art from the University of Virginia and an M.F.A. in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has shown work nationally and internationally\, including exhibitions at Science Gallery Dublin\, Museo del Traje in Madrid\, the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art\, and Museum Rijswijk in the Netherlands. She has a solo exhibition at the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk\, Virginia on view June 30 – October 29\, 2023. \nMichelle Gagliano’s abstract paintings give shape to the forces of nature through strong expressive movements. Underlying the powerful sense of the elemental in her work is her devotion to a wholly natural studio practice\, where she has eliminated the use of all toxic materials. Instead\, the artist employs only paint she creates from pigment and organic matter including eggs\, vinegar\, clove\, walnut\, and lavender oils\, along with gold metal. Gagliano received her B.A. from Plymouth State University in New Hampshire and her M.F.A. from American University in Washington D.C.. She has exhibited extensively throughout the US\, Europe\, and Asia\, and her work can be found in important public and private collections\, including those of the Burchfield Penney\, the Gordon Ramsey Corporation\, and The Manes Hotel in Prague. Gagliano is currently preparing for a 2024 solo exhibition at the Casa Raffaello\, a museum in Urbino\, Italy that is the birthplace of Raphael\, where she will exhibit contemporary works made with the same natural paint “recipes” that Raphael used in the Italian Renaissance. \nKris Iden’s intaglio prints and encaustic drawings capture the intricate beauty and fragility of the natural world. A years-long investigation of formal and material concerns in intaglio printing has led the artist to both complexity and reduction in her work. Numerous etching plates are often used in a single work to layer compositional elements and interweave structure with metaphor. Fragments of poetic verse metamorphose into natural landscape elements as they float within the visual space of Iden’s intaglio prints. In her encaustic works\, the beeswax evokes a harmonious union between the organic and the ethereal\, and also serves as a natural preservative for the artwork itself. Kris Iden received her B.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University in Fine Arts\, Printmaking and Painting\, and received her M.F.A. from VCU in Printmaking. She has been the recipient of multiple awards including a prestigious 6-week residency in Denkmalschmiede Höfgen\, Germany\, and her artwork graces significant private and public collections\, including those of Hollins University and Mary Baldwin College. \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				 \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Installation shots coming soon.
URL:https://www.lydmgallery.com/events/monica-angle-heather-beardsley-michelle-gagliano-kris-iden-organic-matter/
LOCATION:Les Yeux Du Monde\, 841 Wolf Trap Rd\, Charlottesville\, VA\, 22911\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Meg Hitchcock\, Dorothy Robinson\, Kurt Steger: Axis Mundi
DESCRIPTION:Exhibition WorksPress ReleaseInstallation Shots\n				\n				\n					\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n \nPlease enable JavaScript to view the artwork. \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\nLes Yeux du Monde is pleased to present Axis Mundi\, an exhibition of new work by New York-based artists Dorothy Robinson\, Kurt Steger\, and Meg Hitchcock. The exhibition will run from Saturday\, May 13th to Sunday\, June 25th\, with an opening reception taking place on Saturday\, May 13th from 4-6pm. \nAxis Mundi\, a Latin term referring to the cosmological axis of the Earth between the celestial poles\, is a recurring and important trope in the history of art representing the conceptual connection between the higher and lower realms. As a symbolic link between Heaven and Earth\, it is often understood as a reference to the sacred. This notion finds relevance in each of the exhibiting artists’ work: Robinson’s paintings\, Steger’s sculpture\, and Hitchcock’s text-based mixed-media pieces. \nDorothy Robinson’s imaginative oil landscape paintings invite viewers to see and appreciate the natural world in new ways. Her mesmerizing compositions suggest a world coming into being. Characterized by swirling brushwork\, rich texture\, and vibrant colors\, some of them made from powdered pigments of earth and rocks themselves\, Robinson’s works invoke the organizing role of the Axis Mundi\, the means by which cosmic order is imposed upon primordial chaos. Her approach to painting is intuitive and open-ended\, resulting in fantastical imagery that echoes\, in her words\, the “larger\, invisible forces constantly at work in the world.” Dorothy Robinson holds an M.F.A. from UC Berkeley\, has exhibited at museums and galleries throughout the US\, and has won many awards for her art\, including one from the Pollock Krasner Foundation. \nKurt Steger’s striking sculpture represents a fusion of his interests in shamanism\, Western psychology\, and environmental issues. In his Environmental Structures\, Steger juxtaposes organic materials like found rock with geometric man-made forms\, inviting viewers to reflect on humanity’s relationship with the natural world. If these pieces lead viewers to consider the ground below\, his Outdoor Sculptures encourage us to consider what’s above. In the latter\, compositions of angular forms reach heavenward\, connecting earth with sky. As part of this exploration of the link between the above and the below\, Steger has hosted noteworthy interactive sculpture and healing ceremonies\, including one at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. honoring the ten-year anniversary of 9/11. Steger has had work commissioned for public spaces in California and New York\, has been the recipient of awards including a grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts\, and has work in significant museum and private collections nationally and internationally. \nMeg Hitchcock is known for text-based work that explores spirituality\, language\, and faith systems\, and invites us to consider how these structures shape our experience of the world. Methodically cutting letters from one sacred text to create intricate compositions that form the writings of another\, Hitchcock creates space for the consideration of multiple religious traditions at once\, and asks whether their essential meanings might be the same. In her latest work\, Hitchcock combines sacred texts with painting\, sewing\, and burning\, incorporating visual elements and shadows that represent a diversity of perspectives and light sources in dialogue with the text in her pieces. Per Hitchcock\, “In the process of deconstructing and reconstructing sacred texts\, I found a way to express my deep reverence for the word of God.” Hitchcock received her B.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute and studied classical painting in Florence\, Italy. She has been awarded prestigious residencies throughout the US\, most recently at the Foundation for Spirituality and the Arts in Charleston\, South Carolina\, where she was the artist-in-residence in fall of 2022. Her work can be found in important public and private collections in the US and abroad. \n\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				 \n			\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				***
URL:https://www.lydmgallery.com/events/axis-mundi/
LOCATION:Les Yeux Du Monde\, 841 Wolf Trap Rd\, Charlottesville\, VA\, 22911\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Sanda Iliescu: Arrivals\, Angels
DESCRIPTION:Exhibition WorksArtist Statement\n				\n				\n					\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				 \nAngel with Birds and Flowers (St. Francis)\, 2019. Ink on paper\, 19 x12”\, 22 x 16” framed (sold) \n \nAngel with Dog and Serpent\, 2019. Ink on paper\, 19 x12”\, 22 x 16” framed \n \nAngel with Notebook and Bird\, 2019. Ink on paper\, 19 x12”\, 22 x 16” framed \n \nAngel with Birds\, 2019. Ink on paper\, 19 x12”\, 22 x 16” framed \n \nAngel Starting on a Journey\, 2019. Ink on paper\, 19 x12”\, 22 x 16” framed   sold \n \nAngel: After Brancusi’s Portrait of James Joyce\,2019. Ink on paper\, 19 x12”\, 22 x 16” framed \n \nAngel in Greek Costume\,2019. Ink on paper\, 19 x12”\, 22 x 16” framed \n \nAngel Crying with Bird\, 2019. Ink on paper\, 19 x12”\, 22 x 16” framed \n \nAngel Brings Medicine\, 2019. Ink on paper\, 19 x12”\, 22 x 16” framed sold \n \nAngel Bringing Snow\,2019. Ink on paper\, 19 x12”\, 22 x 16” framed. sold \n \nAngel with Snail\,2019. Ink on paper\, 19 x12”\, 22 x 16” framed \n \n Angel Crying\, 2019. Ink on paper\, 19 x12”\, 22 x 16” framed \n \nAngel Crying\, 2019. Ink on paper\, 8 ½ x 5 ½”\, 12 x 9” framed \n \nAngel\, 2019. Ink on paper\, 8 ½ x 5 ½ “\, 12 x 9” framed sold \n \nAngel Crying\, 2019. Ink on paper\, 8 ½ x 5 ½ “\, 12 x 9” framed \n \nYoung Angel\, 2019. Ink on paper\, 8 ½ x 5 ½”\, 12 x 9” framed \n \nAngel (The Engineer)\, 2019. Watercolor on paper\, 10 x 10”\, 14 x 14” framed \nAngel Reading\, 2019. Watercolor on paper\, 10 x 10”\, 14 x 14” framed sold \n \nTwo Angels\, 2019. Watercolor on paper\, 10 x 10”\, 14 x 14 ” framed \n \nAngel Crying: in Garden\, 2019. Ink wash on paper\, 10 x 8”\, 14 x 12” framed sold \n \nAngel Crying: at the Source\, 2019. Ink wash on paper\, 10 x 8”\, 14 x 12” framed Sold \n \nAngel Crying: with Hope\, 2019. Ink wash on paper\, 10 x 8”\, 14 x 12” framed sold \n  \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				These angels were not anticipated: I did not make a conscious decision to draw angels. The subject simply grew from certain feelings one day. I felt very low. I felt like crying.  Somehow\, as an act of defiance—a sort of resistance if you will—I picked up a pen and drew a figure crying. Perhaps this was a sort of self-portrait\, but a self-portrait that did not really look like me. In fact I did not know whether this was a man or woman or child. But\, as I drew\, I felt a sense of compassion for this unknown person. After drawing the tears\, I began wanting to give this figure (this child or man or woman crying) something to hold on to—something that was not entirely hopeless. So\, without really knowing why\, I had a desire to draw wings. And so the figure crying became an angel. \nSanda Iliescu\, Notes on Work
URL:https://www.lydmgallery.com/events/sanda-iliescu-arrivals-angels/
LOCATION:Les Yeux Du Monde\, 841 Wolf Trap Rd\, Charlottesville\, VA\, 22911\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Sanda Iliescu: Arrivals
DESCRIPTION:Exhibition WorksInstallation ShotsPress Release\n				\n				\n					\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				 \nIn the City of Z\, Memories of Rome\, 2018. Watercolor and gouache on paper\, 10 x 12.5″ sold \n \nAlphabet on the Beach\, 2019. Colored pencil on paper\, 32 drawings unframed\, 10 x 8″ each \n \nIn the City of Zi : At Water’s Edge #2\, 2018. Oil on canvas\, 23.5 x 29.25″ \n \nIn the City of Zi: At Water’s Edge #2\, 2018. Oil on canvas\, 23.5 x 29.25″ sold \n \nPeter’s Park: Lagoon\, 2018. Media: Graphite\, Watercolor\, and Gouache on paper\, 10 x 10″To see more from the Peter’s Park series\, click here. \n \nMy Mother’s Bird\, 2015. Thread\, ink and collage on paper\, 8 x 8″  soldTo see more from the Birds Series\, An Unexpected Aviary\, click here. \n \nAngel with Bird\, 2019. Ink on paper\, 18 x 12 inchesTo see more from the Angels Series\, click here. \n \nSonnet XI\, 2019. Oil on canvas\, 18 x 18″To see more from the Sonnets series\, click here. \n \nBlanket #1\, 2019. Oil on board\, 12 x 12″To see more from the Blankets Series\, click here. \n \nThe Blue Pool: Color Meditation\, 2017. Color pencil on paper\, 10 x 10″ sold \n  \nEstelle’s Collection: Broken Umbrellas (No. 2)\, 2015. Collage\, pencil\, and ink on paper\, 9 x 9”\, 14 x 14”\, framed \n \nSand Sketches:  No. 2\, 2015. Watercolor on paper\, 8 x 10”\, 12 x 14” framed \n \nSand Sketches:  No. 1\, 2015. Watercolor on paper\, 8 x 10”\, 12 x 14” framed \n  \nEstelle: At the Beach\, 2015. Mixed media\, 9 x 9”\, 14 x 14” framed \n  \n \nMemories from Childhood: Objects on the Beach\, 2015. Watercolor on paper\, 8 x 10”\, 12 x14” framed \n \nMemories from Childhood: Objects on the Beach\, 2015. Watercolor on paper\, 8 x 10”\, 12 x14” framed \n \nEstelle’s Collection: Broken Umbrellas (No. 1)\, 2015. Collage\, pencil\, and ink on paper\, 9 x 9”\, 14 x 14” framed \n \nIn the Gray Courtyard: Color Meditation\,2017. Colored pencil on paper\, 10 x 10”\, 11 ½ x 11 ½” sold \n \nThe Red House: Color Meditation\, 2017. Colored pencil on paper\, 10 x 10”\, 11 ½ x 11 ½” framed sold \n \nCastle Indigo: Color Meditation\, 2017. Colored pencil on paper\, 10 x 10”\, 11 ½ x 11 ½” framed sold \n \nIn the City of Zi: At Water’s Edge #3\, 2018. Oil on canvas\, 23.5 x 29.25″ \n \nIn the City of Zi: At Water’s Edge #4\, 2018. Oil on canvas\, 23.5 x 29.25″ \n  \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLes Yeux du Monde is excited to present for our initial show of the 2019 fall season Sanda Iliescu: Arrivals\, from August 24 to September 22. Born in Romania\, Iliescu received her BSE in Civil Engineering and her Masters of Architecture from Princeton University. She is a well-known and beloved professor of art and architecture at UVA\, winning the National Beginning Design Faculty award in 2017\, and an artist who has exhibited her art globally and has received many prestigious awards including the Rome Prize\, a McDowell fellowship\, and the Distinguished Artist Award of the New Jersey State Council of the Arts. Her writing on aesthetic issues in art and design includes the book The Hand and the Soul: Aesthetics and Ethics in Architecture and Art and the forthcoming Looking Deeply: Essays on Art\, Architecture\, and Design as well as countless articles including “The Garden as Collage\,” “Beyond Cut-And-Paste\,” and “Art and Community: Making Public Art on a University Campus.” With her students\, she has created many public art projects\, responding to current campus and world issues of discrimination and violence. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis exhibition will feature a wide sampling of Iliescu’s paintings\, drawings and collages\, all bound together with a common theme of magic or a surprising eruption of the sacred in the mundane. The artist writes of the show’s title: “Arrival suggests for me arriving at a magical\, imaginary place of both presentness (being in the present) and memories (remembering the past).” Magical messengers—birds\, angels\, some weeping\, flying umbrellas and more—populate the paintings and collages. Her birds are from a series she drew with her non-dominant\, left hand\, producing one a day for about 5 years\, and their freedom and expressiveness is astounding for such spare and linear compositions. Sometimes she embellishes with sewing and collaged paper or texts. Of birds\, she writes\, “Birds are somewhat fantastical—miraculous even.  They do something we humans cannot naturally do: they fly\, float\, and dance in the air.” Angels are also marvelous messengers and intermediaries from another realm. She writes that they “arrived” as a surprise one day when she was feeling down and she started drawing figures\, neither male nor female\, but weeping. She began to feel compassion for them and wanted to give them “something to hold on to\,” so she gave them wings and thus this series was born. It grew to include a wide variety of angelic beings in many different personalities and guises. They are deceptively simple\, though infinitely varied and expressive through only her sure and masterful line.  Other works in the show are from the series In the City of Zi\, and Peter’s Park\, created during her time in Zurich in 2018 as a Truninger Art Fellow. These give a nod to one of her favorite\, also Swiss\, artists of Modernism\, Paul Klee\, in their rhythmic and surprising geometry\, color and subjects. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.lydmgallery.com/events/sanda-iliescu-arrivals-2019/
LOCATION:Les Yeux Du Monde\, 841 Wolf Trap Rd\, Charlottesville\, VA\, 22911\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Sanda Iliescu: Arrivals\, Peter's Park
DESCRIPTION:Exhibition WorksInstallation Shots\n				\n				\n					\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				 \nPeter’s Park: Garden with Birds and Snake\, 2019. Watercolor\, gouache\, and collage on paper\, 10 x 10”\, 14 x 14” framed \n  \n \nPeter’s Park: Pond\, 2018. Watercolor\, gouache\, and collage on paper\, 10 x 10”\, 14 x 14” framed \n  \n \nPeter’s Park (No. 10): At the Lake\, 2018. Watercolor\, gouache\, and collage on paper\, 10 x 10”\, 14 x 14” framed \n  \n \nPeter’s Park (No. 7): Regatta\, 2018. Watercolor\, gouache\, and collage on paper\, 10 x 10”\, 14 x 14” framed \n  \n \nHephaestus in Love\, 2018. Watercolor\, gouache\, and collage on paper\, 9 x 9”\, 14 x 14” framed\, \n  \n \nPeter’s Park (No. 3.): Garden Plots\, 2018. Watercolor\, gouache\, and collage on paper\, 10 x 10”\, 14 x 14” framed \n  \n \nPeter’s Park (No. 8): Lagoon\, 2018. Watercolor\, gouache\, and collage on paper\, 10 x 10”\, 14 x 14” framed
URL:https://www.lydmgallery.com/events/sanda-iliescu-arrivals-peters-park/
LOCATION:Les Yeux Du Monde\, 841 Wolf Trap Rd\, Charlottesville\, VA\, 22911\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Sanda Iliescu: Sonnets
DESCRIPTION:Exhibition WorksArtist Statement\n				\n				\n					\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				 \nSonnet XII\, 2019. Acrylic on canvas\, 18 x 18” \n  \n \nSonnet XI\, 2019. Acrylic on canvas\, 18 x 18” \n  \n \nSonnet X\, 2019. Acrylic on wood panel\, 12 x 12” \n  \n \nSonnet IX\, 2019. Acrylic on canvas\, 12 x 12” \n  \n \nSonnet I\, 2019. Acrylic on canvas\, 12 x 12” \n  \n \nSonnet II\, 2019. Acrylic on canvas\, 12 x 12” \n  \n \nSonnet IV\, 2019. Acrylic on wood panel\, 12 x 12” \n  \n \nSonnet I\, 2019. Acrylic on canvas\, 12 x 12” \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Sonnets \nI made these paintings after coming home from a month long period in Switzerland on an arts fellowship.  I had enjoyed this time of intense painting\, but I had also missed my husband very much\, and when I came home I found myself drawn to read Shakespeare’s sonnets\, many of which concern love and the writer’s feelings for the beloved. I read carefully and took notes. At some point I decided to try to make paintings that would convey something of the mood of each sonnet.  So that’s what these paintings are: mood pieces based on Shakespeare’s sonnets.  Some of the paintings\, like the sonnets\, are melancholy\, even dark; some are more joyful.  Somewhere in the painting I would write the first line of the sonnet.  The mood is defined by the colors I choose\, by the types of lines I draw\, and by the relationship of the often square patches of color in the pieces and the free flowing lines running through and around them. I think of it as a kind of dance that takes place between lines and colors. \nSanda Iliescu\, Notes on Work\, 2019
URL:https://www.lydmgallery.com/events/sanda-iliescu-sonnets/
LOCATION:Les Yeux Du Monde\, 841 Wolf Trap Rd\, Charlottesville\, VA\, 22911\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Sanda Iliescu: Arrivals\, Blankets
DESCRIPTION:Exhibition WorksInstallation ShotsArtist Statement\n				\n				\n					\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				 \nQuiet\, 2019. Acrylic on wood panel\, 12 x 12″ \n \nQuilters Castle\, 2019. Acrylic on wood panel\, 12 x 12” \n \nOde to a Quiltmaker\, 2019. Acrylics on wood panel\, 12 x 12” \n \nSonnet VI\, 2019. Acrylic on canvas\, 12 x 12” \n \nBlanket No. 2\, 2019. Acrylic on wood panel\, 12 x 12” \n \nBlanket No. 3\, 2019. Acrylic on wood panel\, 12 x 12” \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				 \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Blankets \nLike the sonnets\, these paintings are very much about love\, except this time it’s my love for my son.  They’re called “Blankets” because when he was very little he had a blanket that was special to him.  It was a beautiful\, soft blanket\, knitted\, with very pale colors – pale blues and pale rose shades.  It also had a beautiful scent – at least I thought it was a beautiful scent\, because it was his scent. I tried to convey the spirit of that blanket in these paintings. They’re grid paintings and\, like the sonnets\, they use color to convey moods – the peace\, the wonder\, the warmth of childhood.  As I kept working\, some of the paintings departed from the original blanket of my son and became just mood pieces where the different moods were suggested by colors and color relationships.  Some of them are like quilts or rugs.  But they’re all about mood and also scent and texture\, since I think soft colors\, soft lights\, can convey a sense of smell and touch.
URL:https://www.lydmgallery.com/events/sanda-iliescu-arrivals-blankets/
LOCATION:Les Yeux Du Monde\, 841 Wolf Trap Rd\, Charlottesville\, VA\, 22911\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190923
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SUMMARY:Sanda Iliescu: Birds
DESCRIPTION:Exhibition WorksArtist Statement\n				\n				\n					\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				 \nFemale Yellow Warbler\, Dendroica Petechia\,  Mixed media on paper\, 8 x 8”\, 12 x 12 framed\, $1200 sold \n  \n \nFish Crow\, Corvus Ossifragus\,  Mixed media on paper\, 8 x 10”\, 12 x 14” framed\, $1200 \n  \n \nTufted Titmouse\, Baelophus Bicolor\,  Mixed Media on paper\, 8 x 8”\, 12 x 12 framed\, $1200. sold \n  \n \nRose-Breasted Grosbeak\, Pheucticus Ludovicianus\,  Mixed media on paper\, 8 x 8”\, 12 x 12 framed\, $1200 \n  \n \nPine Siskin\, Carduelus Pimus\,  Mixed media on paper\, 8 x 8”\, 12 x 12 framed\, $1200 \n  \n \nMy Mother’s White Bird\, Aris Alba est Mater Mia\, 2013. Mixed media on paper\, 8 x 8”\, 12 x 12 framed\, $1200 sold \n  \n \nMy Mother’s White Bird\, Aris Alba est Mater Mia\, 2013. Mixed media on paper\, 8 x 8”\, 12 x 12 framed\, $1200 sold \n  \n \nMocking Bird\, Mimus Polyglotos\, Mixed media on paper\, 8 x 8”\, 12 x 12 framed\, $1200 \n  \n \nGreen Heron\, Butorides Virescens\,  Mixed media on paper\, 11 x 8 ½”\, 15 x 12 ½” framed\,$1200 \n  \n \nDove\, Columba\,  Mixed Media on paper\, 8 x 8”\, 12 x 12 framed\, $1200 \n  \n \nCity Pigeon\, Columba Liria\,  Mixed media on paper. 8 x 8”\, 12 x 12 framed\, $1200 \n  \n \nCity Pigeon\, Columba Liria\,  Mixed media on paper. 8 x 8”\, 12 x 12 framed\, $1200 \n  \n \nGray Catbird\, Dumetella Carlinensis\,  Mixed media on paper\, 8 x 8”\, 12 x 12 framed\, $1200 sold \n  \n \nBlack and White Warbler\, Muiotilta Varia\, Mixed Media on collage on paper\, 8 x 8”\, 12 x 12 framed\, $1200 \n  \n \nBlack Bellied Plover\, Plovialis Squatarola\,  Mixed media on paper\, 8 x 8”\, 12 x 12 framed\, $1200 \n \nBarred Owl\, Strix Varia\, 2013. Mixed media on paper\, 8 x 8”\, 12 x 12 framed\, $1200 \n  \n \nBaltimore Oriole\, Icterus Galbula\,  Mixed Media on paper\, 8 x 8”\, 12 x 12 framed\, $1200 sold \n  \n \nCarolina Chickadee\, Poecile Carolinemsis\,  Mixed media on paper\, 8 x 8”\, 12 x 12 framed\, $1200 \n  \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				An Unexpected Aviary: Birds Drawn with My Left Hand\nApproximately 8 x 8 inches; mixed media on paper; 2010-2015 (196 drawings) \nI started this series in order to teach myself to draw with my non-dominant\, left hand. The more I drew\, the more I enjoyed using my “other” hand.  I liked its delicacy and deliberateness\, its awkwardness and slowness… The left hand insisted I draw in a steady and minimal way. I had to be precise and concise. Every line had to mean something: there could be no wasted marks.   \nIt seemed like magic: the way I could convey a bird’s distinctive character—her personality—with just a few lines. Some birds are fragile and shy\, others incredibly bold; some are angry or petulant\, others exuberantly happy; some soar\, others float gently\, and others simply stand their ground…  \nPerhaps more than the right\, my left hand delights in the endless possibilities of drawn lines moving on a page.  Fast lines\, and slow lines; broken and gently sweeping ones; harsh and jagged ones; sweet lines; lines that echo each other… lines that touch and lines that do not touch… With just lines I could suggest not only the peculiar character of the bird but also a set of relations between the bird and its specific context… I knew the drawing was going well when an atmosphere emerged: a way of seeing and of being in thatplace where the bird lived. \nBut why draw birds?  I could have used my left hand to draw any number of things. The truth is that I simply love birds and pictures of birds—yes\, even those cheesy ones printed on hallmark cards. A bird can be so adorable\, delicate\, and innocent. Like all animals birds lack guile and dishonesty. And\, of course\, all birds are somewhat fantastical—miraculous even.  They do something we human cannot naturally do: they fly\, float\, and dance in the air. \nMy love of birds made it easy to draw them over and over.  Each morning\, I rested my soul by looking at a bird. I did this almost every day\, for five years\, between 2010 and 2015.  I stuck with it. I drew\, erased\, tore up\, and stitched fragments of drawings together. My drawing models varied. I drew birds I found in books\, birds on greeting cards\, birds I remembered\, and birds I saw in our backyard: alighting on our bird feeder\, resting on branches of bushes\, or just hopping around grassy areas looking for worms…   \nSanda Iliescu
URL:https://www.lydmgallery.com/events/sanda-iliescu-birds/
LOCATION:Les Yeux Du Monde\, 841 Wolf Trap Rd\, Charlottesville\, VA\, 22911\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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