This spring we ARE EXHIBITING new paintings by SEVERAL of OUR Gallery artists and
formally introducing a new artist: LISA LEBOFSKY.
LISA LEBOFSKY
Lisa Lebofsky’s paintings explore our emotional and physical relationship with nature. In her artist statement she writes, “I paint the susceptibility of nature, and correlate it with human vulnerabilities. The paintings are made with natural elements and on surfaces that remain visible through various layers of paint, permeating the entire image. The push and pull of lights and darks, opacity and transparency, abstract and real, enhances the variability of these scenes.” Lebofsky holds her BFA in metals from SUNY New Paltz, and MFA in painting from New York Academy of Art. In addition to solo and group exhibitions, her work has been exhibited in museums and universities. She is the recipient of several awards and her work has been featured in several reputable publications.
PIERRE MARIE BRISSON
Following this path of French modernism, Pierre Marie Brisson has been using paper: cut, painted, folded, and marouflaged to transcribe images of the south of France and the Mediterranean for decades. Now transported by a fresh habitat – Brisson’s work takes on new meaning, both absorbed from the exotic locale and in heightened reflection of what it is to be French. Of this unique contrast between painting locations in southern France and the Southeast Asian islands, he says: “They are different, but I find myself there. These are the environments that move around me. It is not a story of decoration, nor of geography, but of freedom.” And that freedom is reflected in his new work which reveals both his never-ending fascination with the sea and the life in and around it, but also a new sense of color and light from another side of the world.
AGUSTÍ PUIG
The work of Agustí Puig follows a direction related to Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miró and Jean DuBuffet and he is certainly in dialogue with the foremost Spanish artist Antoni Tàpies as well as the Art Informal Movement of Post-War Spain. Working in a style known as pintura matèrica (incorporating the use of non-traditional materials into painting), Puig's art has alchemical-transformative qualities for both the artist and viewer. The thick and almost brutal application of paint, applied by the artist as though in a trance-like state, speaks to a kind of studio as zen temple and painting as a means of freedom through authentic physical expression.
GOTTFRIED SALZMANN
Gottfried Salzmann’s pictures are an invitation to defy gravity, separating the viewer from normal feelings of space and time. His landscapes pull the gaze of the spectator away from the earth, offering glimpses of incalculable depths. Salzmann prefers to look at the world from on high, a modern Icarus floating above land and sea.
Salzmann has a radical concept of the image which has given us his unique views of landscapes and cities, portrayals that are freed from the rules that typically govern such compositions. This concept is rooted in the physical nature of watercolor, a medium he has favored since the early days of his career. He is drawn to its spontaneity and transparency, aspects which it enjoys over every other medium.
