Trine Wejp-Olsen & Wendy Heldmann Exhibition
Nancy Margolis Gallery
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Danish born, Trine Wejp-Olsen will exhibit four dream-like paintings of oil on canvas. Wejp-Olsen’s work, rich with unexpected and finely tuned pigment, expands our understanding of reality. Forests become enchanted and flora and fauna, empowered, are harbingers of meaning. Wejp-Olsen explores the contemporary conflicts of industrial society vs. nature. Her paintings evoke tensions both personal and universal while maintaining a playful, beautiful iconography.
Wendy Heldmann, California, will exhibit work from her ‘Disaster’ and ‘Library’ series. The paintings, acrylic on canvas, depict the exteriors and interiors of various buildings post-natural disaster. Heldmann’s interest in “things falling down” stems from living on/near the earthquake grid for the past thirteen years. Heldmann’s background in civil engineering also lends to her fascination with man-made structures and the way in which they breakdown.
Crumbled brick, shattered panes of glass and disjointed buildings against a desolate winter landscape, show the devastation nature can bring to man-made invention. Heldmann used source material from the 1964 earthquake in Anchorage, and the San Francisco Lomo Prieta quake. In Heldmann’s ‘Library’ series, she paints the interiors of libraries post-earthquake; tomes scattered and strewn open across still-standing aisles. The narrow visual focus of the paintings, leads towards exterior windows, hinting at the calm sky, in contrast to the disordered man-made interior.
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from June 04, 2009 to August 15, 2009