Trudy Benson

Trudy Benson Studio View

Trudy Benson
Inside Out, 2010
Oil on canvas
72 x 80 inches

Brooklyn based artist Trudy Benson now with Horton Gallery in New York. I love this work.

KF + CM 4EVER

Keltie Ferris
!@#$%^&*()
2010
Oil, acrylic, oil pastel & sprayed paint on canvas
80x80"

Keltie's work is non-verbal, more like noise then language, more akin to flashing lights and potential energies then anything nameable. Therefore each painting is titled by a set of punctuation marks, such as (((!!!))) created by the artist and are emblematic of the emotive, nearly expletive nature of her work. Other titles (including the title of the show) allude to bathroom graffiti, notebook valentines, as well as the ambition of marking a space and marking a future.

Excerpt from the Horton Gallery Press Release November 18 - December 30, 2010.

Red, Yellow Blue

Portia Hein
Starry Night, 2010
Oil on canvas
48 x 36"

Portia Hein
Pastel forrest (PH10_15), 2010
Oil on canvas
36 x 48"

Portia Hein's newest paintings and drawings continue her translation of the natural world into a personally resonant language of marks, color and texture. Images of birds, trees and celestial bodies find themselves coalescing or breaking apart amidst rays of light, night skies and turpentine washes...Working largely from memory, Hein draws on the emotional as well as the physical attributes of place. Like memory, the surfaces of her paintings are varied. Some parts are thick, vibrant and richly textured, while others, like gaps in memory, are thinly painted and vaguely suggested rather than wholly depicted.

Excerpt from the Traywick Contemporary Press Release October 3 - December 18, 2010 .