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Cool & Collected CT
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Kenise Barnes Fine Art is pleased to present our 2019 summer show in the Kent, CT gallery
Cool & Collected CT July 13 – September 8
cover: Yolanda SĂĄnchez, Paradox of Love, 2016, oil on canvas, 30 x 60 inches, $6000.
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Carlos Gamez de Francisco Creole I, 2017 watercolor on canvas 66 x 24 inches $6800
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Carlos Gamez de Francisco Creole II, 2017 watercolor on canvas 66 x 24 inches $6800
CARLOS GAMEZ de FRANCISCO Carlos Gamez de Francisco was born in post-revolutionary Cuba in 1987 in a climate of art censorship and limited access to information. Carlos Gamez de Francisco was educated in an academic style heavily influenced by the Russian Academy. This influence and the history of Cuba itself, its storytelling and history, are the lens through which the artist creates quasi-historic portraits, narratives and an illusory world. Gamez de Francisco understood that decontextualizing epochs and artistic symbols are tools that establish a connection between the present and the past. His works explores themes of power, hierarchy, perfection and beauty, repetition, decoration and obscene abundance. His images often depict a sense of happiness and well-being which in turn, insinuates a nonexistent time. Thus, themes and specific figures are examples of distorted reality illustrating my perceptions about life. The artist focuses on modifying historical periods, fashion, images and contexts using insects, whether realistically represented or not, as imaginary elements recreating new contexts. Mainly, He recreates experiences and memories by superimposing and manipulating historical figures and events. Finally, understanding beauty in its various forms is the motivation for experimenting with non-conventional materials. Gamez de Francisco’s general approach is to demystify classical beauty and present it as a natural process and in its natural form.
David Licata Mianus Moss, 2019 Torch worked borosilicate glass 36 x 112 inches $16,000.
Details: Mianus Moss
David Licata David Licata works with borosilicate glass. With gas torches and a well-honed arsenal of traditional and innovative techniques, Licata stripes, twists, blends and shapes rods of glass into large wall sculptures. A lifelong student of glassmaking, the artist has become a technical expert; he often employs Venetian stripping, twisting or fusing to achieve cause desirable effects in coloration, and surface texture of the glass. He might also use any variety of chainmaille “stitches� in building the work. The process is time and labor intensive, becoming a meditation for Licata, he compares making the variety of glass links and connecting one to the other as akin to knitting with flame: "It is very complex, repetitive and I challenge myself with the patterns which contradict the idea of protection." David Licata is a dedicated naturalist and conceptually his work explores the fragile human connections between our natural environment and the ideas of connectedness. David Licata has an MFA in Metalsmithing from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI. and a BA in Sculpture and Education from SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY. He has over ten years of various glass working experience working in studios such as Adeptus Arts, Salusa Galssworks, Wheaton Arts, Peters Valley and the Brookfield Craft Center. David has exhibited in such shows as SOFA NY, SOFA Chicago, Glass Weekend, and Talente 09 in Munich Germany. The artist lives and works in New York.
detail: Dew Drop
Dew Drop, 2018 acrylic on mylar mounted on panel 40 x 60 inches (unframed), 41.25 x 61.25 inches (framed) $10,500. (framed)
Jackie Battenfield Battenfield’s meditative painting process begins with the artist’s close attention to the graceful forms of unfolding leaves and blossoms, and to the twisted boughs and branches of trees. The artist painstakingly translates her photographic studies into drawings on large sheets of translucent Mylar, taking care to stay true to the original images. The artist makes hundreds of color studies before arriving at the palette for each painting. When applied to the Mylar, Battenfield’s ink-like pigments reassert themselves, separating and forming unexpected, distinctive abstract, transparent and opaque patterns. The finished painting on Mylar is mounted on a panel that allows light to play behind the pristine painted surface. Photo credit: Cindy Qiao
Jackie Battenfield earned a BS from Pennsylvania State University, PA and an MFA in Visual Art from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY. She is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Award (1991) and the Warren Tanner Award (1996). Her work is represented in more than 1000 collections worldwide including the New York Public Library, NY, The Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, Brunswick, NJ, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ, Palmer Museum, Penn State University, University Park, PA, Museum of Art at the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ and the United States Embassy Collections, Brazil, Cambodia, Croatia, Jamaica, and Peru. She currently lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
details: Gold James
Sophie Treppendahl Gold James, 2016 oil on canvas, 48 x 70 inches, $7000.
Sophie Treppendahl Sophie Treppendahl’s paintings investigate enchantment in the ordinary, capturing and contemplating unexpected moments of bliss where everyday life seems filled with ephemeral perfection. Summer swimmers lounging and luxuriating in enticing pools, and the ever-iconic Coney Island roller coaster evoke our collective memories of peaceful warm weather pastimes. The nostalgia implicit within the subject matter of her paintings allows Treppendahl to explore the association of these reminiscent moments and investigate how they bring us together. The images conjure our own personal recollections in a way that is both haunting and wistful. Treppendahl holds a BA in Painting and Printmaking from the College of Charleston. Her paintings have been shown at Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art (Charleston, SC), 1019 Gallery and Richard and Dolly Maass Gallery at SUNY Purchase College of Art and Design (Purchase, NY), and the Visual Art Center of Richmond (Richmond, VA).
detail: Cameo
Josette Urso Cameo, 2017 Oil on canvas $6500.
Josette Urso
Josette Urso
Josette Urso makes paintings and drawings working directly and urgently in response to her immediate environment. Her approach involves moment-to-moment extrapolation governed by intuitive leaps of scale, color and wayward geometry. In the artist's collages, the visual space is simultaneously highly randomized and highly ordered. The play of visual coincidence creates pleasures, just as it keys us into the generative power of chaos. In all her work, Urso’s visual contrasts and cross-fertilizations unfold and are cumulative, nonlinear, free-flowing and interpretive. Space becomes an ambiguous and malleable substance; its manipulation and acrobatic mark-making become a kind of gymnasium of expertly-placed color and shape. “For me, drawing and painting parallel the act of seeing and are the most direct links to private time with the physical world. Despite the urgency of my process, as I work, time still slows down. My work becomes a record of this exploration and a reflection of my inherent energy and reason for living.” - Josette Urso, 2017 The artist is the recipient of grants from The Adolph and Ester Gottlieb Foundation and The Pollack-Krasner Foundation, The Basil H. Alkazzi Award, USA and has been honored with residencies at Yaddo, UCross Foundation, and The Millay Colony for the Arts in the United States, as well as residencies in Spain, Germany, Ireland, Cambodia and Taiwan. Urso’s artwork has been acquired by numerous museums and private collections worldwide, including The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL, Stadtmuseum, Schwandorf, Germany and Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH, to name a few. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
opposite page: Yolanda Sรกnchez The Paradox of Love, 2016 oil on canvas 30 x 60 inches (diptych) $6000 Right panel
Yolanda Sánchez Sánchez's paintings are a search for re-enchantment, for a way to reach below the surface of things, to find that point of connection with life. The artist wants to engage the viewer in a sensory experience, one that is un-camera-like, uncomputer-like. Her goal is to nudge the viewer into a deeper experience of the present, where the “circumference of self” is dissolved - to provide a moment of contemplation without literally telling a story. Nature, in a very broad sense, is the artist’s source of inspiration. She is translating and projecting thoughts, emotions and sensations, into a moment of meeting, working with light, color and mark and the materiality of the paint itself. Sánchez is also influenced by poetry, Eastern philosophy and the compositional structures of Chinese and Japanese classical ink painting, generating visual images that integrate drawing, writing and painting. She is interested in tapping into the energy or power that lies underneath these aesthetics, maintaining nature as a central element and making work that is spiritually infused. Parallel to the work of other American artists such as Franz Kline, Brice Marden and Cy Twombly, she endeavors to tap into the dynamic liveliness of the brushstroke and capture its poetic content, blurring the lines between language and visual representation. Yolanda Sánchez was born in Havana, Cuba and emigrated to the United States in 1960. She has a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology. After teaching for many years, she returned to her first passion, art. She was awarded an MFA and a BFA from Yale University in painting. Her work has been widely exhibited in The United States, South Korea, Barbados and Puerto Rico.
details: Quince Bowl
opposite page: Melanie Parke Quince Bowl, 2018 Oil on canvas 38 x 42 inches $5600.
Thomas Sarrantonio Clamor, 2016 oil on panel 12 x 12 inches $900
Thomas Sarrantonio Keynote, 2018 oil on panel 12 x 12 inches $900
Thomas Sarrantonio The paintings of Thomas Sarrantonio seek to mediate between realms of external perception and internal reflection. They present themselves as meditations on nature and self. Choosing humble, often overlooked subject matter, such as the overgrown grasses at the edge of a field, he attempts to translate the dynamic processes of nature into the stasis of physical matter on a painted surface. Small oil paintings are produced directly from nature while large paintings are studio productions that utilize memory, experience, imagination and conceptual ideas to negotiate the terrain of contemporary painting. The paintings are offered to the viewer as templates to provoke active participation in the process of seeing and quiet contemplation of the act of consciousness. Thomas Sarrantonio studied Painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA where his teachers included Will Barnet and Sidney Goodman. He also holds degrees in Biology and English. His paintings have been exhibited widely and he is the recipient of numerous honors including a Pollock-Krasner Award and a Visiting Artist Residency in Normandy, France. He lives in Rosendale, New York with his wife and children.
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