Marie Louise Trichet Gallery at Wisdom House invites the public to attend our Gallery Opening and Artist Talk as part of our Women Artists: Diverse Voices in 2021 series.
“Within and Without: Contemporary Abstracts and Landscape”
Presented by Almu Fernandez, Kathleen Zazzaro, Leslie Hardie, Patricia Miranda
“Within and Without: Contemporary Abstracts and Landscapes” features four women artists exploring the interior meaning of landscape art. Patricia Miranda, Almudena Fernandez, Leslie Hardie and Kathleen Zazzaro delve into the abstract and representational languages of landscape painting and photography. Combining ancient and modern techniques, these four artists examine our deep longing to understand the natural world and humanities role in nature.
The Artist Talk begins at 3:30pm. Please arrive earlier to find your seat. This event is free and open to the public. We ask you register in advance to account for social distancing.
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Almu Fernandez: "There is beauty around us, in nature, in the face of a loved one, in the food we eat… What I am searching for is the need to awaken our senses to the beauty that brings our souls to a place of peace. I try to understand the unnamed source of this beauty. Perhaps this sense of beauty is something ancient that I feel everywhere or it may be a connection with our beginnings. I long to find balance, order and harmony in my life and in so doing I want to transmit this feeling to my audience. There are endless sources of inspiration for me coming from nature. Colors and shapes, uncommon places, materials and textured surfaces are also sources for my work.”
Kathleen Zazzaro: “The landscape has been my primary focus for many years. The use of a panoramic camera lends itself perfectly to such a format. It is the areas outside of the urban environment that I am particularly drawn to. Places with rolling hills and big skies, empty beaches and quiet gardens; the often complex and sometimes subtle textures found in tall grasses and bare trees, or water that disappears into the sky. Places for the spirit to find peace. It is my intention to capture images that will release the viewer from the negative issues which effect our daily lives.”
Leslie Hardie: “My artwork can be about revelation: revealing the artist’s mind, the hidden world of the subject, the raw, the veiled, the unspoken. I am interested in my subject’s complexities; in what causes people to behave the way they do; in the myriad ways people interact with each other; and in the subtle but unavoidable demands of functioning—both acceptably and unacceptably—in one’s society.”
Patricia Miranda: “The Illuminate Series developed from my study of the intricate language of pattern in Christian, Islamic and Hebrew illuminated texts. Evolving from the ban on graven images in the three Abrahamic faiths, patterns become symbols, telling stories in abstract form. Isolating these shapes from their original context I re-assemble, magnify, and juxtapose them with vignettes landscapes, referring to places imagined or appropriated from pastoral painted scenes. Pattern, color field, landscape, initiate a dialogue across cultural forms, referencing text, history, place. The paintings are handmade egg tempera, 22k gold leaf on dry gesso panel.”