Elana Kundell
dal 29/11/2011 al 28/12/2011
Segnalato da
29/11/2011
Elana Kundell
Artamo Gallery, Santa Barbara
Painting Music. By listening to music and emulating it in her work, the artist has discovered unconventional techniques in her art-creating approach.
Elana Kundell creates imaginary environments that are based on emotional rather than physical spaces. Music, playing a tremendously important role in her paintings, has been inspiration for her wishing to produce pure and transcendental art. By listening to music and emulating it in her work, she has discovered unconventional techniques in her art-creating approach. Working in oil on panel and also canvas, she develops the surfaces intuitively using knives, brushes, fingers, and cloth to form dense, intersecting layers. As a result her paintings occupy an ambiguous zone between what is seen and what is felt.
In celebration of this new solo exhibition by Elana Kundell, we are pleased to also announce a performance by world-renowned musicians in the gallery on Thursday evening during the opening reception.
Fearlessly creative, multi-instrumentalist Momo Loudiyi will be joined by the magnificent, Classical Indian, Jazz and World Vocalist Sandhya Sanjana during her brief visit from Amsterdam. They will be joined by percussionist Dahveed Haribol Das. The set will be improvisational and spontaneous, and will give visitors a rare taste of the music that inspired several of the artworks in the exhibition.
Sandhya's website: http://www.sandhyasanjana.com/
(Trained in classical Indian, with jazz, Brazilian, rock and World influences, an extremely wide and beautiful range of vocal sounds, played with Alice Coltrane..)
Momo's website: www.loudoasis.com
(Moroccan performing artist, producer, singer-songwriter with an sizzling touch, his virtuosic range includes otherworldly artistic delays, contemporary World musics, rock and jazz and many other influences, all blended into a unique, uplifting style all his own.)
Both artists are highly creative masters at improvisation. This will be their first public collaboration.
Image: Elana Kundell, Shine, oil on canvas, 24" x 24"
Artamo Gallery
11 West Anapamu Street - Santa Barbara
Gallery hours: TuesdaySunday, 12:005:00 PM, First Thursday until 8:00 PM &by appointment.
Free admission