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Arts

Daniel Iliescu in Black and White                      By Maximillien de Lafayette

.Photo: Form. Etude by Maestro Daniel Iliescu

Creating a whole universe with a few black and white strokes is a daring esthetical task. Zen masters did it on parchments and bamboos.  It was the sublime and the spiritual which came to life through the lines and elegant curves of the Japanese Senseis and enlightened Chan masters. Today, in New York city, there is an abstract artist who produced similar imagery and challenging forms via a different medium. He did not use bamboos, nor chanted to evoke the divine muse. He just did it with ink, juxtaposition of images, frames and repros in negative. Et voila, a superb world of light and darkness bursted on his laminated and glossy hard stock.

Photo: Composition by Iliescu

This phenomenal artist is Daniel Iliescu. There is an infinitum in his compositions. Delicate and rebellious blunt strokes freed and froze a mysterious world, simplistic in its form, but complex in its message. It is a dark world. A cosmos of quest, investigative mind and ultra-modern esthetical conception. Is it ornamental? Decorative? Abstract? Or simply an intellectual curiosity. Dare to find out. One thing is sure, Iliescu's work is most unusual and haunting.  Elegant in its lyrical simplicity and stormy in its eloquent silence.

 

Lynne Gelfman: Resist and React"
Until May 6, 2006
 Newman Popiashvili Gallery , New York

Photo: LYNNE GELFMAN, Sidi Bou Said, 1999, Acrylic on panel, 15 x 13 x 2 1/4 inches.

Newman Popiashvili Gallery is pleased to present the second solo exhibition of Lynne Gelfman at the gallery. The exhibition features four large-scale paintings from Gelfman’s latest series “Resist/React.” The exhibition will be on view from April 1 until May 6, 2006. In this new body of work, Gelfman continues experimenting with non-traditional materials and techniques.

She intricately constructs the multiple layers of her paintings. Her work is often about illusion. From a distance, the surfaces appear to show thick paint, but up close, they are sanded fine and smooth. Gelfman introduces another layer, embodying the element of chance, in “Resist/React”. The top level shows a chemical resist that pulls apart the paint. Gelfman plays with the reaction of the resist to create movement across the image. Patterns of small spheres evoke associations with foam, spindrift, bubbles and hover over a sub-painting that suggests animal-like skins. Gelfman has often explored abstraction and its references to the physical world, architectural structures, aerial landscapes textiles and lichen. Here the work extends to the ethereal. Gelfman’s works are in the permanent collections of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C.; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami; Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida; Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, Florida; the Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland and the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan, among others. Her recent exhibitions include a solo show at Fredric Snitzer Gallery and Mapping Space: Selections from the Collection at the Miami Museum of Art. Newman Popiashvili is located at 504 West 22 Street in New York City and is open Tuesday through Saturday 11 AM – 6 PM.

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