Michele Liebler "Immersed: New Paintings and Monotypes"
First Street Gallery
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First Street Gallery presents the opening of the exhibition IMMERSED: New Paintings and Monotypes by contemporary artist Michele Liebler.
Ms. Liebler's paintings of swimming pools capture the geometric qualities and their glimmering water. The pools take on a multitude of meanings. The human figure is conspicuously absent in some of the paintings, an absence that give them a dreamy, melancholy quality. Viewers can insert themselves into the scene, bringing to bear their own associations with these spaces. In Liebler's other paintings, swimmers are suspended in time, blissfully engaged in the act. Some welcome the embrace of the cool blue water while others feel the challenge of its depth.
Eileen Watkins, writing in Star Ledger, called Liebler a "soulful" painter who "has a particular gift for giving inanimate objects personalities. In the 90's William Zimmer, writing in The New York Times, characterized her work by remarking, "looking outward is something of a leitmotif." He described her tense, frontal Self-Portrait in the Studio as "compelling." In this new series of paintings and monotypes, Ms. Liebler has given a fresh interpretation of swimming pools. Viewed in its entirety, these swimming pools and swimmers signify a personal experience in the paintings, although one gets the feeling of a novelist's transmutation of personal events into fiction.
[Image: Michele Liebler "The Pool's Edge" oil on canvas, 60 x 40 in.]
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Schedule
from March 27, 2012 to April 21, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-03-29 from 18:00 to 20:00