Female Abstractionists Exhibit at Elisa Contemporary Art

Female Abstractionists at Elisa Contemporary Art February 19, 2020 — May 6, 2020

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Stephanie Cate

Rose Umerlik

The new Elisa Contemporary Art exhibit, Female Abstractionists, opens February 19 at the Elisa Contemporary Art Gallery in Riverdale NY. It will run through May 6, 2020.

Our new exhibit, Female Abstractionists, celebrates three women whose dynamic artistic paintings are all abstracted. It will feature the work of Vermont artist, Rose Umerlik, and California artists, Kimber Berry and Stephanie Cate.

The Abstract art style, while often inspired by real places, memories, and life experiences, is created with abstract-elements of form, color, line, tone, and texture. The viewer will often feel a connection to the work‌sometimes without knowing why. It is often the hidden inspiration or message of the artwork that creates that bond.

The paintings of Rose Umerlik are emotional abstractions -- inspired by her stories of family, relationships and filled with forces of emotion including hope, fear, loss, pain, and love.

The exhibit will feature two California artists inspired by our natural world.

The exhibit will include two series by Stephanie Cate, both inspired by planets in Outer Space.

It also includes Kimber Berry’s series of paintings, "Plastic Gardens", where she creates a dialogue of the human condition and raises important social questions as to how we live with nature.

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Rose Umerlik Acting Upon Oil and Graphite on Wood Panel 28 x 48

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Rose Umerlik Convergence in Blue Oil and Graphite on Wood Panel 24 x 38

Rose Umerlik Ruffle and Fold Oil and Graphite on Wood Panel 26 x 42

Rose Umerlik Two Aloof Oil and Graphite on Wood Panel 28 x 48

Stephanie Cate Europa 30 Study Acrylic on Paper 24 x 18, Framed

Stephanie Cate Europa 2 Study Acrylic on Paper 24 x 18, Framed

Stephanie Cate Saturn 23 Study Acrylic on Paper 24 x 18, Framed

Kimber Berry Pixie Dust and Other Magic Mixed Media on Canvas 40 x 30

Kimber Berry Only Elephants Should Wear Ivory Mixed Media on Canvas 36x36

Kimber Berry Kimber Berry is a California artist, who is part of the "Flow Movement," a term coined by Art Critic (and curator) Peter Frank. Her artwork is vibrant and dynamic mixed media combining acrylics, resins and digitally altered photographs of her paintstrokes. As a native of LA, Berry loves to blur the line between what is real and what is illusion.

She has received a lot of positive attention from art critics and curators on the West Coast and has been featured in solo and group shows in New York, LA, Atlanta and London. She has been part of recent exhibits at the Riverside Museum and the Huntington Beach Art Center in California.

Her work is in public and private collections around the world. Berry has been featured in Hamptons Cottages & Gardens, Ocean Home, Art Ltd, Luxe Interiors +Design, Flaunt, New York Times and CBS News.

Stephanie Cate Stephanie Cate is an abstract painter based out of Palm Desert, California. She spent most of her childhood in France, before relocating to Los Angeles, California at fourteen. She spent a couple of years as an apprentice for a muralist in Santa Monica, painting large scale murals for casinos in Las Vegas and private residences before she decided to pursue her own artistic path. She attended Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, receiving a BFA in painting.

Being surrounded by the history and architecture of France as a child and the grand decaying beauty of former centuries left an early impression on her that still influences her work to this day. After working for over a decade in a photographic based mixed-media process, Stephanie returned to her original love of pure abstraction to delve in further and reconnect with freshness and liberation of texture, line, shape and color.

Cate's work is in public and private collections including Kelly Wearstler, Renee Zellweger, Annabeth Gish, Mr. Avi Amiel (President, Art Collector International Magazine), Rasa Center for Yoga (Oregon) and Wynn Tower Suites (Las Vegas).

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Rose Umerlik Rose Umerlik received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts, with strong influences from Stephen Zaima who impressed upon her the importance of one’s ability to self-evaluate, and the “work method.” The backbone of her studio practice is based on a strong work ethic and dedication to being present and honest with her work.

Umerlik extracts the intangible emotional moments that live in our collective human psyche and interprets them abstractly through form, line and color so that they may also exist outside of ourselves. She has had thirteen solo exhibitions in New England and has been included in numerous group exhibitions across the country and internationally. Her work has been reviewed in Art New England and Artscope. She has also published two books, Intimacy of Forms and Histories.

Among other awards, she has received a grant from the NH State Council on the Arts to participate in the Takt Kunstprojektraum Residency in Berlin, Germany, a fellowship for the Golden Foundation Residency Program, and the Clowes Award from the Vermont Studio Center. In 2018, she was named a VT Artist to Watch!

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About Elisa Contemporary Art Elisa Contemporary Art represents a portfolio of both emerging and mid-career contemporary artists, with a focus on the dynamic use of mediums and materials. Currently about 25% of our artists are from the West Coast/Pacific.

Our art and artists do not fit into any particular current trend or fashion, but are those exploring and testing the boundaries of various media, techniques, materials and ideas about humanity, nature and our world.

Founded in 2007 by Lisa Cooper, Elisa Contemporary Art is dedicated to promoting the appreciation and collection of art as a way to enrich and heal our lives, our communities, and the world. A portion of every gallery sale is donated to charities helping underserved children heal through art. We support Free Arts NYC and The Art Therapy Project.

Elisa Contemporary Art has participated in international art fairs in New York, Miami and the Hamptons. We have also curated over 40+ public art exhibits in the Tri-State area. Elisa Contemporary Art has been featured in a number of publications including Ocean Home Magazine, Hamptons Cottages & Gardens, CT Cottages & Gardens Design Guide, New England Home—CT, New York Spaces, American Art Collector, and The New York Times.

The Gallery is located at 5622 Mosholu Avenue, Riverdale NY (Open Wednesdays 12-5pm & by appointment. Our Art Salon in Fairfield, CT, which launched in 2017, is open by appointment only.

Owner Lisa Cooper is a member of Art Table, POWarts, The Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County and the Art & Architect Review Committee at Saint Peter’s Church in Manhattan.

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