Emily Nelligan "Recent Drawings"
Alexandre Gallery
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By contrast, Emily Nelligan works only with unfixed charcoal, graphite and erasure on 7 by 10 inch sheets of thin cotton writing paper. In her work, she distills the observed landscape of a Maine island and its coast, rocks, trees, sea, light and mist into virtuosic, semi-abstract images of shadow and light. “Ms. Nelligan’s drawings are nocturnes in which light is more fugitive than shadow and a velvety darkness dominates every prospect (Hilton Kramer, 2005).” Included in this show are twenty drawings from the past four summers. Nelligan's exhibition will be shown concurrently with works by Marvin Bileck. Bileck, who died in 2005, and Nelligan met in the 1940s when both were students at Cooper Union and married soon after. Since that time they divided their time between New York, Connecticut and Maine. For many summers the two artists worked together every day on Great Cranberry Island (Maine) in the morning and again at twilight.
[Image: Emily Nelligan "2 Oct 07 (2)" (2007) charcoal on paper 7.25 x 10.5 in.]
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Schedule
from November 19, 2009 to January 23, 2010
Opening Reception on 2009-11-21 from 12:00 to 14:00