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Shelly Fienerman My work speaks to the endless possibilities of paint on canvas and while the paintings are referenced to real things in nature - still life, landscape, people - they ultimately give way to the inner impulse of the paintings. The broad brushstrokes create, at once, a keenly felt structure and airiness. In the end it is the painting that most work as a painting on its own terms. Of course, what is assumed to be really there,influences the forces of imagination and possibility.In my work the real and imaginary both have legitimate entitlement, a full breadth of expression.
Communicating through contrasts: thin pigment and broad brushstrokes alongside scribbled surfaces and nearly raw canvas and sometime spare expanses, where the paint is a mere whisper upon the surface. Vibrant reds and magenta dominate the still life, Sunflowers, allowing for the flowers vividness. At first glimpse Sweeping Blue, another still life, seems to be a realistic representation of still life objects, but upon closer inspection offers a glimpse of the still life as a vehicle to explore the paint rather then the reverse. Summers have always been an intense painting time for me. On any given day in August you can find me painting on some back road somewhere. I love the open expanses as well as the little nooks and crannies of the area. While painting,I'm focused on that particular task, the changing skies just add to the excitement of the experience, of finding the truth of the painting. I'm not thinking of painting in a particular way, I just look and paint. Of course I choose what to paint and something about it must capture me in some way, what that is, is hard to articulate. I guess it's a celebration of life. In August 2005, I had a solo exhibit at the Ilsley Library in Middlebury, Vermont. I was also part of the juried show at the Bowery Gallery in Manhattan. In 2003 I was offered a residency at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. An article on my work, Still Life: The Real and the Imaginary, was featured in American Artist Magazine. In addition, an article on my apartment/studio appeared in the New York Times. I was also included in the Artful Home. I was artist-in-residence at Wave Hill Garden Conservatory, located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, New York. I had a three person show at the Kerygma Gallery in New Jersey and was included in the Women Artists of the 90's exhibit, at the Bistango Gallery in Irvine, California. I was included in the Cooperstown Art Association Juried Show. My work was purchased for the New Wing of Bellevue Hospital. I have also participated in many national group shows |
