"Aspen Snow, " Abstract Painting

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Teodora Guererra
"Aspen Snow, " Abstract Painting
2014

About the Item

A calm after a storm. snowscape, abstracted, gestural abstraction, drip, drips, minimalist, contemporary, Blue and white collide in this water-snow like abstract painting. Artistic influences: Pat Steir. Teodora Guererra received her Bachelor of Arts in Art Education with a minor in Studio Art from Southern Connecticut University in New Haven and a Masters in Art Education from the College of Saint Rose, Skidmore College. Her artistic vision deepened and evolved during her years spent teaching and painting in Connecticut, Tucson, Arizona, and upstate New York. Arizona’s naturally radiant landscape and arid climate led her to experiment with rich under-painting and vivid color. Inspired by the shifting seasons of Connecticut and New York, Guererra pursued layering, dripping and pouring techniques. Her distinctive painting style is an alluring synthesis of texture, mark-making, and glowing color. ARTIST STATEMENT: “These works explore the tides of joy, failure, humor, uncertainty, and the euphoria of it all. Subconsciously, the landslide is so complex that as I paint, I continue to uncover hidden layers of emotion and unexpected images. This is my personal evolution. Upon completing my Masters, I began to make paintings using layers of paint, one color over another, sometimes adding other materials such as sand, glass, and bees wax to the paint. As I continued, I started to use different palette knives, making some of the layers very thick in areas, some scraped down to the color beneath. Then pouring thin layers of pigment mixed with turpentine to stain and drip, controlling the flow down the canvas usually from the top, using gravity. Chance plays a role when you pour and drip paint over thick textured surfaces, merging with the paint underneath. I like layering emotive colors to achieve striking textural and dense paintings that are at times exuberant, playful and joyful, and at other moments fraught with tension and brooding. The color can be monochromatic in execution but other hues and occasionally some metallic seep through, revealing the complexities of all the multi-layers. Pushing the limits and taking risks when painting is in my DNA!” EDUCATION: 1979 Southern Connecticut State University, BS, Art Ed, Minor, Studio Art 2008 College of Saint Rose, MS, Art Education EXHIBITIONS: 2008 Masters Show, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY 2009 Saratoga Color, Sorelle Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY 2011 Connections, Sorelle Gallery, Albany, NY 2012 Chromacosmo, Sorelle Gallery, Albany, NY 2012 Reveal Fall, Sorelle Gallery, Albany, NY 2012 Albany Wine & Dine For The Arts, Albany, NY 2012 Albany Center Gallery Masquerade Gala, Albany, NY 2013 Chromacosmo Returns, Sorelle Gallery, Albany, NY 2013 Spectrum, Carriage Barn Art Gallery, New Canaan, CT AWARDS: 2013 Spectrum, 24th Annual Juried Art Exhibition, First Place Mixed Media, Betty Barker Gallery, Carriage Barn Arts Center, New Canaan, CT SELECTED COLLECTIONS: Allmen Health and Wellness Center for Women, New York, NY Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY DeLuca Plastic Surgery, Albany, NY Hodes & Landy Consultants, Albany, NY SUNY Brockport, Brockport, NY K Plastic Surgery, Albany, NY Numerous private & corporate collections “The depth pulls us in and dares us to look deeper. It is chasm and midnight sky, it is poplars reflected on a moonlit lake, it is rain running down a windowpane as dusk declares itself to be night. It is all of these things, and it is none of these things. Therein lies the beauty of this chromatically intense and artfully executed work.” Dr. Jill Deupi, Founding Director and Chief Curator of the Ballarmine Museum of Art, Fairfield University.

Creator:
Teodora Guererra (1956, American)
Creation Year:
2014
Dimensions:
Height: 48 in (121.92 cm)Width: 60 in (152.4 cm)Depth: 1.5 in (3.81 cm)
Medium:
Canvas,Acrylic
Movement & Style:
Abstract
Period:
21st Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Westport, CT
Reference Number:
Seller: TG2011stDibs: LU544180672