Flowers and Flyers at Elisa Contemporary Art

Flowers and Flyers at Elisa Contemporary Art April 28 - July 28, 2021

Cara Enteles Cynthia MacCollum Rebecca Swanson Deborah Weiss Elisa Contemporary Art www.ElisaContemporaryArt.com Lisa@ElisaArt.com 212.729.4974 See us on

The new Elisa Contemporary Art exhibit, Flowers and Flyers, opens April 28 at the Elisa Contemporary Art Gallery in Riverdale NY. It will run through July 28, 2020.

Our Spring 2021 exhibit focuses on four female botanical artists. They each celebrate the beauty and inspiration of Mother Nature in their unique ways.

As a lover of nature, Cara Enteles subtly addresses environmental issues that plague our natural world.

These include declining numbers of pollinating animals, such as monarch butterflies, birds, bees and bats.

We will be featuring, Where’d You Go Karner Blue 3, focused on on the Karner Blue Butterfly and created with recycled aluminum cans.

The exhibit includes new gallery artist Rebecca Swanson and her Prismatica series. Swanson “paints” with her camera, blending the abstract forms of nature with subtle colors to build intimate portraits of perfect, individual blooms. The Prismatica series are limited edition photographs which are focused on the flower's center. They have a kaleidoscope sense of motion and a wonderful sensual quality.

We are featuring for the first time Connecticut Artist, Deborah Weiss with work from the “Blooms” series.

According to Weiss, “Blooms is a celebration of the contemporary botanical image. I have used my own dyed and painted papers for these hand-cut collages...Taking the bloom formations a step further, I am also pursing multiple color palettes and the inclusion of vintage papers.”

The exhibit will also include a new series of 2020 Mixed Media monoprints by Cynthia MacCollum. .

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Rebecca Swanson Graphic Blossom IV Limited Edition Photograph 30x30, framed to 36x36 (also available as 15x15, framed to 23x23)

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Rebecca Swanson Laced I Limited Edition Photograph 15x15, framed to 23x23

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Rebecca Swanson Frazel Dazel III Limited Edition Photograph 15x15, Plexifacemount frame

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Rebecca Swanson Laced I Limited Edition Photograph 15x15, Plexifacemount frame

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Rebecca Swanson Laced III Limited Edition Photograph 15x15, Plexifacemount frame

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Rebecca Swanson Frazel Dazel I Limited Edition Photograph 15x15, Plexifacemount frame

Deborah Weiss Blooms + Stems No. 3 Hand Cut Collage + Vintage Paper 23x19, framed to 25.5x21.5

Deborah Weiss Big Blooms No. 7 Hand Cut Collage from artist's hand dyed and painted papers 28x22, framed to 35x27

Also Available:

Deborah Weiss Blooms + Stems No. 4 Hand Cut Collage + vintage paper 23x19, unframed

Deborah Weiss Evening Blooms No. 1 Hand Cut Collage from artist's hand dyed and painted papers 28x22, unframed

Also Available:

Deborah Weiss Midnight Blooms + Stems No. 12 Hand Cut Collage and Vintage Paper 27x19.5, unframed

Cara Enteles Where’s You Go Karner Blue 3 Oil on Aluminum and hand cut Aluminum Cans Panel: 16x20 Full Installation Size: 30x35

Cara Enteles The Meadow 2 Oil on Aluminum Panel 24x24

Cara Enteles Seen in Passing 1 Oil and Silkscreen on Yupo Paper 40x26

Cynthia MacCollum Largo Mixed Media Monotype 12x12 Image on 21x21 Paper, Framed to 22x22

Cynthia MacCollum Impanema Mixed Media Monotype 12x12 Image on 21x21 Paper, Framed to 22x22

Cara Enteles Cara Enteles’s work is inspired by environmental issues and attempts to raise awareness of the harmful impact humans can have on nature and wildlife. To create an intricate play of light and depth in her work, Enteles paints on aluminum panels, as well as acrylic sheets using both sides with a backing of gold mirror. The combination of reflective sheen, transparency and opacity, which changes according to the viewer’s position, mimics the shifting quality of light in nature. The human impulse to conquer and control nature has been a consistent theme in Enteles’s work.

Awards and honors include the Art in Embassies Program at the American Embassy in Mauritius; a fellowship to the Julia & David White Artist’s Colony; a studio at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts; and a grant from the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance Fellowship for the Visual Arts. She received a BFA from Parsons School of Design and has studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Her work is in private and public collections around the world.

Cynthia MacCollum According to Connecticut painter and printmaker, Cynthia MacCollum, "I find inspiration in fragments of nature held close for reflection. I employ a personal vocabulary of fluid marks and organic imagery to express the sensual pleasure and ephemeral quality of the natural world. Within this realm, my work varies from representational to abstract, and I am continuously moving along the continuum between the two."

Her work has been exhibited throughout the world since 2010. She received her BA from Washington University in St. Louis and continued her art education at Fashion Institute of Technology (NY), Santa Reparata International School of Art (Florence, Italy) and Center for Contemporary Printmaking (Norwalk, CT). Her studio is in New Canaan, CT.

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Rebecca Swanson Rebecca Swanson’s work is inspired from her childhood in Ohio, growing up with her mother, an avid gardener, and her grandmother, an accomplished china painter. Swanson studied drawing, painting, photography, and sculpture at the Cleveland Institute of Art and moved to New York to work as a textile designer.

She has been exhibiting since 1995. Her photographs can be found in Private and corporate collections including Banana Republic, St. Regis, Marriott and Omni hotels and in hospitals throughout the country.

Deborah Weiss Deborah Weiss is a visual artist creating both works on panel and paper. According to Deborah, "The energy of the natural world is both highly charged and subtle simultaneously. My work is an exploration of the exchange between nature's elements, terrain, plant life and atmosphere. The work begins spontaneously one gesture at a time, editing takes place as the work unfolds. There is a layering and excavation process as I work. Each layer informs the next both concealing and revealing information. As in the natural world randomness and order coexist."

She has exhibited throughout the United States and has been included in several international exhibitions taking place in China, Sweden, Italy, England and Denmark. Weiss’ works are also included in numerous private and corporate collections including Mattatuck Museum, Fidelity Investments, Ritz-Carlton Hotel and Shenzhen Hotel. She was born in New York and now maintains a studio and residence in Connecticut.

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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, At Home FC, Connecticut Magazine Home + Design Guide, 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, The Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County and the Art & Architect Review Committee at Saint Peter’s Church in Manhattan.

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