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"SUMMER EXHIBIT"
at the CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY
MAY 26
to JULY 3 - 2005
Jenny Nelson,
Jeri Eisenberg,
Nick Patten,
Carolou Kristofik.
Upstairs Photography Gallery
Lependorf/Shire
CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY is pleased to present the works of
Jenny Nelson,
Jeri Eisenberg, Nick Patten
and Carolou Kristofik in an exhibit
of paintings and photographs that will run from May 26th through
July 3rd, 2005.
Abstract Painter Jenny Nelson, grew
up in the North Eastern corner of Connecticut. At an early age she
was recognized for placement in an advanced art program and has
been painting and drawing ever since. She attended the Maine
College of Art in Portland, ME, and graduated from Bard College.
For the last 12 years she has been living and working in
Woodstock, NY. Of her work, Jenny states, "Many of my final images
evoke the memory of objects I have seen or places I have been. For
example the reflection of light coming through an open window, or
the faded paint on the wall of my childhood bedroom. These
incomplete, half-recollected fragments of visual memories provide
a well of imagery for me to access. Layers of pigment and the
movement and energy of a series of brush strokes can fulfill my
desire to revisit these simple, yet significant memories."
Photographer Jeri Eisenberg has been
creating beautiful photographs for decades. Her most recent
woodland photographs are inspired by our region in much the same
way as the Hudson River School painters were inspired to capture
the landscape.
By photographing her favorite treed landscapes with a purposefully
oversized pinhole or a radically defocused lens,
Eisenberg captures them as they are
not often seen. The images are firmly grounded in the natural
world, a particular place, a particular season, a particular time.
But by obscuring detail, only the strongest brush strokes emerge:
the images become sketches with light, literally and figuratively.
"They float between there and not there",
Eisenberg explains, "dissolving into abstraction and
reconfiguring themselves into recognizable form. They are the
trees seen through eyelashes of mostly closed eyes on bright sunny
days; the trees seen through heavily falling snow; the trees of
memory; the trees one might reach for before slipping from
conscious life."
The very soft-focused, painterly images are printed digitally on
delicate and translucent Japanese Kozo paper. The large-scale
prints contain the barest hint of color in selected values,
reminiscent of traditional split-toned photographs. Through the
depiction of a succession of seasons, the work echoes life’s
temporal cycles. "It succeeds for me"
Eisenberg continues, "when it provides fragmentary glimpses
of the beauty that exists in the everyday natural world, glimpses
that console, even as they are tinged with a sadness of the
awareness of their transience. If it provides a hint of the
infinite and eternal in the here and now, I am all the more
pleased."
Painter Nick Patten decided after
living on Cape Cod for 12 years and exhibiting his work in several
galleries through New England, to move back to his native New
York. He now works in a private studio behind his home in the
Hudson Valley. Patten's hauntingly
spare interior paintings invite the viewer in to dream and
remember. Known for his use of space, shadows, lights and
reflections, Patten has been the
subject of many articles and awards, including most recently, the
receipent of the gold medal in oil painting at the National Juried
Show at the Allied Artists of America in New York City.
Complementing the realism of Patten’s paintings,
Carolou Kristofik strives for an
almost photographic quality in her still life paintings. The
subjects in her compositions range from elegant china to yellow,
rubber duckies, allowing her to amuse the viewer with an array of
mood, drama, and whimsy. First inspired to paint by childhood
trips to the Metropolitan Museum, Kristofik
has studied at the Art Students League and at Brooklyn Museum Art
School. She has accumulated countless awards and mentions of merit
at exhibits in Cooperstown, Schenectady, Cobleskill, Albany, and
Canajoharie.
These four artists will be present at a reception in their honor
on Saturday, May 28th from 6-8pm. All are welcome to attend. The
Carrie Haddad Gallery is located at 622 Warren Street, in Hudson,
NY. For more information call (518) 828-1915 or
www.carriehaddadgallery.com
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