Linda Christensen "Grace and Contrast"
J. Cacciola Gallery
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Linda Christensen’s figurative paintings deal with life’s everyday occurrences. Her signature feature is the female figure, often seated and captured in a moment of reverie, unguarded and unaware of being watched. With shimmering, complimentary and saturated colors, shapes that sympathetically collide and harmonize, ambiguous mixtures of abstraction and impressionism, and brushwork that is deft and expressive, she paints her signature solitary women and occasional pairs.
Christensen’s art is shaped by the works of masters: from Michelangelo, depth of human pathos; from Mark Rothko, contrast of extremes in color and ambiguity of space; from Dennis Hopper, intensity of an isolated figure; from Joan Brown, providing the view with intimate and personal engagement; from Nathan Oliveira, freedom of scribbled expression; and from David Park, Christensen derives strength of every day occurrences as subject matter. Yet with each painting she completes, the results are pure Christensen.
[Image: Linda Christensen "Orange Skirt" oil on canvas, 42 x 35 in.]
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Schedule
from September 05, 2012 to October 06, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-09-06 from 18:00 to 20:00