Current Exhibition

In Autumn Light

Vassilina Dikidjieva, Arlene Finger, Nancy Macina, Kristen Struebing-Beazley, Christopher T. Terry

October 14th - November 11th

Opening Reception:  Thursday, October 14th 6 – 8pm

Closing Reception:  Saturday, November 1st 4 – 6pm

Chelsea, New York:  The Viridian Artists gallery is happy to present In Autumn Light an exhibition of five Viridian Artist Gallery Affiliate Members.  The show opens Tuesday, October 14th and runs through Saturday, November 1st with an opening reception Thursday, October 16th from 6 to 8pm.  A closing reception will be held at the gallery Saturday, November 1st between the hours of 4 and 6pm

Vassilina Dikidjieva lived and worked for thirteen years in Ethiopia where she traveled throughout much of the country seeing monuments, ancient sites and big market places full of colors, arts, crafts and people.  It was these people Vassilina never grew tired of seeing, people from different walks of life that this body of work came to represent in five portraits of women and one composition in six parts that she sees as a song, or a love poem to this part of the world.

Arlene Finger’s compositions reflect a representational mixed media with juxtaposed themes often in combinations of still life and landscape where line and color have great meaning.  Many times linked to what is simply outside the window or in a small room interior with the artist, Finger generates a primal feeling through an artist’s perspective from what is at hand that most would pass by.  It is a dynamic quality of, at times, simple shapes with a flowering aesthetic that touches the eye through a combination of charcoal pencil, ink, pastel and white chalk to create simple yet complex drawings.

Nancy Macina sees the world’s great cities in an ineffable beauty that humankind has created in the search for many of its truths.  Through this she tries to capture the genius-loci of a place by strolling the streets and seeing what in combination with what brings the essence, the unseen soul or spirit, so that more of these truths so sought after may surface.  Macina feels now, more than ever, we need to preserve the history of these places with ecological consciousness to further progress, as she evokes connection from image to viewer to another viewer through with what has been experienced by them in similar places.    

Kristen Struebing-Beazley’s Memento Mori, a blackened wall ensemble, exhibits the melancholic atmosphere of daily incremental loss of light in the autumn of our northern hemisphere.  The days (and years) dwindle down to a precious few . . .   Assembled with a combination of masks, photos, and plaques this stunning work leaves an impression of untold mystery on the viewer, who, without being able to grasp it with an actual hand, feels the ghost of what is so beautiful in what eludes, in what drifts away, in what is possible. 

Christopher T. Terry presents six paintings that reflect his continuing interest in representation based on memory and invention as well as conventional direct observation.  In some of the work there leans an image very much taken from life but still contains aspects and information only imagined.  At other times a painting is almost completely based on remembered details of an interior space worked on several years before the painting was started.  The gaps in his memory, or invented details that do not completely mesh with reality help contribute a meditative dream-like quality to the work where the images fulfill a haunting beauty of light and warmth.

Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday 12-6PM

For further information please contact Christopher Heffernan, Gallery Director at 212 414 4040 or viridianartistsinc@gmail.com

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