Lorraine Glessner

Corpuscle

2016

A bright multicolored painting in acrylic and mixed media with mint green and burgundy red stripes against a luminous cobalt blue background. Signed, dated and titled on verso. Joanne Mattera’s paintings can be described as lush minimalism, the work is chromatically rich and compositionally reductive. Mattera is the foremost expert in the field of encaustic painting and is the founder and former director of the International Encaustic Conference. Her artwork is in the collections of The New Britain Museum of Contemporary Art, US Embassies (Slovenia and Poland), US State Department, Bank of America, and Norwegian Cruise Lines, to name a few as well as numerous private collections. Mattera writes a contemporary art blog, she is a frequent guest speaker and curator and is a member of American Abstract Artists...

A multicolored painting with bright yellow, aqua, burgundy and light violet stripes against a vivid orange background. Joanne Mattera’s paintings can be described as lush minimalis...

In this abstract painting in acrylic on canvas mounted on a shaped panel by Elizabeth Gourlay, carefully ordered blocks of color in a deep shade of dark cobalt blue with thin lines i...

A sky blue background complements geometric shapes in shades of dark indigo and navy blue, green, yellow and light blue gray. The angles and soft gradation of color in the layered sh...

Carefully ordered horizontal blocks of color in pale green, light teal blue and soft sage are luminous against thinner neutral sections of exposed beige linen in this acrylic painting on linen mounted on shaped panel. Signed, dated and titled on verso. Elizabeth Gourlay’s work is a meditation on color and form, a gradual yet progressive analysis leading to a complex vocabulary of shapes, color and line. Musical composition, emotional states and our collective subconscious resonate within bars, lines and blocks of color. The abstract forms emerge, layer and shift in precisely ordered, carefully composed rhythms. The artist contemplates the elements that make color in reduced forms come to life: size, flatness, relation to its edges, and how the presence of other colors affect how it is perceived. Gourlay draws inspiration from shapes found in everyday life and in her studio. The observed shapes either remain as they are or become simplified to their essential geometric elements. Subtleties in color, area, edge or orientation are the catalyst for emotive responses. Palette is minimized; the artist rarely uses a wide palette within one work. Rather, a broad range of colors are explored and then reduced. Gourlay investigates color properties: complementary or analogous color, value, saturation and color harmony vs. color anomaly. Elizabeth’s Gourlay’s work has been shown extensively throughout the United States. The artist is the recipient of numerous residencies, fellowships and awards including Artist in Residence at the studio of Sol LeWitt in Spoleto, Italy. Gourlay’s work has been written about in The New Criterion, Painters’ Table and Gorky’s Granddaughter, to name a few. Gourlay earned her MFA at Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT, and her BA from Edinburgh...

This delicate botanical drawing is made with gold acrylic on cradled panel, painted black. The exploration of ephemerality, and the fragility of a wild dandelion. its leaves, petals ...

Greg Miller's abstracted backgrounds of drips, patterns, and phrases and the peeling back of layers provide a study in the impermanence of the things that surround us. Incorporating ...

Paper paint graphite charcoal on panel referencing Creation of Adam by Michelangelo in Sistine Chapel Whether the subject matter is figuration or natu...

Acrylic and graphite on cradled wood panel

Acrylic and graphite on cradled wood panel

Acrylic and graphite on cradled wood panel

The organic aesthetic and textures of Peter Kuttner’s original boho minimalist artworks are the result of patient layering and original uses of media. Through a combination of paint ...