Patty deGrandpre

"Kauai, Tranquility", Abstract Landscape, Lavender, Green, Blue, Print, 2020

2020

Patty deGrandpre’s “Kauai: If I Lived There, I Would Never Leave” is a 8.75 x 7.5 inch unique abstract inkjet print represented on 14 x 10.75 inch Awagami Washi Inbe paper embracing both the art of digital printmaking and creative photography. Kauai beach coastline superimposed over a tree, delicate flora, and a roof of a gazebo in black, pink, and green sit on the top half of this abstract landscape print portraying Hawaii’s Garden...

Patty deGrandpre’s “Santa Fe, Color and Reflection” is a 9.25 x 15.25 inch unique abstract print represented on 12 x 16.5 inch Awagami Kozo thin white paper embracing both digital printmaking and creative photography. Two distinct New Mexico landscapes are placed on the bottom half of this vivid print. Desert...

Artist: Carmen Cicero, American (1926 - ) Title: Untitled 5 Year: 1971 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 55 Image Size: 18 x 20 inches Size: 21 x 23 in. (53...

"Verdant Shield" is an apt titled for this green toned abstract painting by Debra Drexler. Blues and turquoise create vertical fields of color atop an atmospheric background of pinks and light blue to create an immersive dimensional depth. Debra Drexler maintains studios in both New York and Oahu, and her work is informed by her unique bi-coastal experience. In her luminous, large-scale abstract paintings, she brings the transcendent experience of the Hawaiian landscape to a New York audience. Through her New York based studio and curatorial practices, she is also deeply engaged in critical conversation surrounding new abstraction. She states “Abstraction takes us to a state of timelessness that is primal in its humanity, disconnecting us momentarily from the mediated “now” of our electronic devices, and connecting us to a “now” that gives us a glimpse of the infinite. While our insistent digital projections can take us away from both our animal and spiritual nature, abstract painting reminds us again of what it means to be human. The corporality of the paint mirrors the flesh of the body and transports us into the timeless.” Debra Drexler's paintings are informed both by participating in the contemporary resurgence of abstraction coming out of New York, and by living in the Post Colonial Pacific for close to three decades. In the 21st century, much of our experience is mediated through the screens of our devices. In contrast, the making and viewing of paintings remains a direct, engaging experience in Drexler's paintings. She aims to take us to a state of timelessness that is primal in its humanity, disconnecting us momentarily from the mediated “now” of our electronic devices, and connecting us to a “now” that gives us a glimpse of the infinite. As a colorist, Debra Drexler provokes unexpected color relationships and creates spatial contradictions that come from those interactions. Some of her color choices reference the post digital experience with its highly saturated synthetic color. The luminosity and saturation also mirror the unique quality of light and tropical color interactions in Hawai’i, where Drexler also lives. Her work is driven by an athletic painting...