NYAB Event - Elise Ansel "(re)Cycle"

Elise Ansel "(re)Cycle"

Phoenix Gallery

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I make abstract paintings that are derived from three distinct sources: old master paintings, photojournalism, and digital snapshots of the word around me. I am interested in using paint as a vehicle for feeling or sensation rather than as a means of illustration. My method is inspired by Cezanne's idea of "le petit sensation," of using each brush stroke to communicate a sensation that is simultaneously optical and emotional. The paintings begin with a specific pictorial point of departure but then resolve into abstraction as the representational content is balanced and ultimately eclipsed by my focus upon color, composition and the materiality of the paint. Linear, rational readings are interrupted and replaced with a capacious awareness of the sensuous possibilities of paint. I lean into the banal in order to create in myself and in the viewer the ability to see the world freshly.