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5:30 - 6:30pm: Wendy Nylen/Picture This, 772 Post Road East, Westport
Wendy is showing Flora, an exhibition of work by Ann Evans de Bernard.
We start at 5:30pm at Wendy Nylen/Picture This at 772 Post Road East. Wendy, a Harvard graduate with a degree in art history managed Picture This for 9 years (1990-999), returning as gallery owner in Dec. 2007 after working in digital printing at Image Works of Westport with Don Sigovich and Mark Bunger. Wendy is also an artist working in pastel, acrylic and oils.
Wendy is showing Flora, an exhibition by Ann Evans de Bernard. “Whether painting floral still lifes at home in Bridgeport or tropical flora in her home in the Caribbean, Ann brings her love of paint texture and color to her subject matter. These large vibrant canvases burst with happy energy." Artist, writer, and educator, Ann began drawing and painting in high school. She went on to study painting at Indiana University with Robert M. Barnes and from there, went to New York Studio School of Fine Arts to spend two years refining her painting skills under the direction of several abstract expressionist painters such a Philip Guston and George O’Neil.
6:30 - 7:30pm: Amy Simon Fine Art, 1869 Post Road East, Westport.
Amy Simon Fine Art is pleased to present: In Your Dreams! Geoffrey Detrani + Eric Jiaju Lee.
At 6:30pm we move on to Amy Simon Fine Art, 1869 Post Road East. After working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Guggenheim Museum and Marlborough Gallery, Amy Simon became a private dealer in New York and Connecticut and in 2005, opened her Westport gallery in the Sasco Mill, a 200 year old landmark building. The gallery specializes in work by mid-career and emerging artists, contemporary blue chip editions and Asian contemporary art.
Amy Simon Fine Art is pleased to present . Both artists relocated from Brooklyn to Connecticut. Detrani currently works in New Haven and Jiaju Lee’s studio is in Greenwich.
Geoffrey Detrani creates large scale works on paper, mounted on panel: detailed drawings that explore the relationship between the natural world and the built environment. He is especially interested in the tenuous fit between the things we have built and the resurgent and violent forces of the natural world around them.
Detrani's work is in numerous important private and public art collections including The Museum of Modern Art (NY), The Brooklyn Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Baltimore Contemporary Art Museum, The New Britain Museum of American Art among others.
Eric Jiaju Lee’s work is a combination of Modernist abstraction and traditional Chinese painting, employing a technique that involves pouring and dripping paint onto raw canvas. With attention to the formal visual aspects of painting, the artist applies Chinese philosophical principles to inform the composition, especially with regards to the interplay of positive and negative space, a representation of the Yin-Yang (passive-active) duality.
