A Summer Showcase: Paintings by Rosalyn A. Engelman May 23 - June 13 | |
The recent work of Rosalyn A. Engelman, Prayers and Nature, includes a series of white paintings in which the artist's distinctive brush strokes produce variations on themes that animate the seasons--the swirling of snow, of wind, of flower petals. Her patterned, layered abstractions are at once in motion and tranquil, impersonal and affecting. A Summer Showcase at Baruch College's Mishkin Gallery, Paintings by Rosalyn A. Engelman will be on view from Wednesday, May 23 to Wednesday, June 13. Opening reception, Tuesday, May 22,5 to 7 p.m. Free and open to the Public. Bits of emotive colors, yellows, reds and blues, escape from Engelman's white canvases and from the six works on paper, collectively called capriccio. Caprice, fantasy, imagination--Rosalyn Engelman's paintings stir the mind to travel to other realms while at the same time inducing a meditative mood. Her brushstrokes, larded with color, convey depth on a flat surface. At times Engelman adds a metallic sheen to her canvases, which causes the painting to glisten and change with the angle of vision. There are also a number of darker canvases. Here Engelman has used heavy blue shades to create patterns that look deep and still. But the paintings in this exhibition, the diaphanous whites and the dense blues, are works on a continuum. The artist has added fragments of poetry to the titles other paintings, an interpretive device that seems apt. She especially favors Japanese haiku poems, brief, evanescent, yet laden with meaning. These new works by Rosalyn A. Engelman are a sharp contrast to the stark and somber paintings she exhibited in a series entitled "Nocturnes of the Soul." Powerful black canvases, these evoked a darkness that symbolized political turmoil, war and human suffering. In her most recent work, drawing inspiration from nature and prayer, Engelman has, literally, lightened up. Rosalyn Engelman's work has been featured in a variety of solo and group exhibitions, primarily in the New York area. Her paintings are represented in public collections at The New School University, the Nigerian Embassy and the War Tribunal Court in The Hague, Netherlands. | |
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