Kansas Plein air
dal 17/7/2002 al 31/8/2002
Segnalato da
17/7/2002
Kansas Plein air
Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles
Lisa Grossmans paintings achieve a rare balance between abstraction and figuration, technique and process, beauty and concept. Her paintings are of the broad Kansas Prairie, painted outside and generally in a single sitting. Grossman utilizes a broad palette, using the rich hues of the evening, blues greens and oranges, and the acid colors, of a hot clear day.
Lisa Grossmans paintings achieve a rare balance between
abstraction and figuration, technique and process, beauty
and concept. Her paintings are of the broad Kansas Prairie,
painted outside and generally in a single sitting. Grossman
utilizes a broad palette, using the rich hues of the evening,
blues greens and oranges, and the acid colors, (almost
Bonnard like) of a hot clear day.
Although these paintings are clearly representational,
Grossman's brushstrokes stand out, capturing the method
and consciousness of the artist at work. She will often
spend an entire day or two in the hills observing her
reactions to the environment before she begins to paint.
In one sense her paintings are beautiful, sometimes
solemn, meditations on the quickly vanishing open prairie.
And in another way, she captures her own artistic spirit by
her use of color and texture within the picture plane.
Lisa Grossman lives and works in Kansas. She was the
recipient of The Kansas Arts Commission Fellowship, The
Virginia Mastio Memorial Purchase Award at The National
Small Oil Painting Exhibition at The Wichita Center for The
Arts, and the Art Institute of Pittsburgh Faculty Memorial
Scholarship.
Stephen Cohen Gallery
7358 Beverly Boulevard Los Angeles CA 90036