Bowery Gallery Presents Adrianne Lobel: Reflections on a Pond
The artist’s latest series of graphic and geometric paintings is inspired by the landscape and its reflection on her pond in upstate New York.
In Reflections on a Pond, her fourth show at the Bowery Gallery in New York City, Adrianne Lobel presents a new series of graphic and geometric paintings inspired by the landscape and its reflection on her pond in upstate New York. She works en plein air during the warmer months and takes the work into her studio in Hoboken in the winter, creating larger, cleaner versions of the outdoor “sketches.” Over the years, the work has become more abstract as she tries to compose the chaos of nature into something almost architectural.
Adrianne Lobel takes on the classic challenge of abstraction as she distills her experience of nature with carefully honed shapes. Varying color harmonies, lushly painted, signal the change of seasons and the time of day. Powerfully composed arrangements bring a tautness of design and a sense of resolution in their clarity. The artist uses great invention to achieve endless and subtle variation using only rectangles, semi-circles, and half-circles. Elements overlap, interlock, find themselves sliced by dark lines. The edges are painted freehand, endowing the work with a warmth and accessibility that a more mechanical approach would lack. The resulting paintings are immensely satisfying.
John A. Parks, painter, teacher, and art writer
Lobel comes to painting with a practiced cubist eye. She energetically rough-houses along the surface of her paintings while applying nervy chrome yellows, leaf greens, deep-cool blacks, and hot reds. Her aim is a density of paint that reads like flesh, and her geometry suggests landscape. Her plein-air method reinforces her principles: she arrives, finds, and locates forms actively. An organic fusion of reality and invention grounds her world. Lobel depends on her inner strength, vision, and tough-minded decisions: hand-made and heartfelt.
George Negroponte, painter, curator, and art writer
Adrianne Lobel: Reflections on a Pond is on view April 25–May 20 at the Bowery Gallery. A reception will take place on April 27, 5–8pm.
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