NYAB Event - Trine Bumiller “Denali”

Trine Bumiller “Denali”

Kathryn Markel Fine Arts

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Kathryn Markel Fine Arts presents Denali, an exhibition of new works by painter Trine Bumiller.

Denali, meaning “great one” or “high one” in the Alaskan Athabaskan indigenous language, is both a national park and mountain, occupying more than six million acres of land and rising to a summit elevation of 20,320 feet. It is the tallest peak in North America. Its transcendent, nearly alien, beauty is the subject of Trine Bumiller’s latest exhibition.

By fusing panels of disparate sizes and imagery Bumiller creates narratives that are as much about the things she includes on the canvases and panels as much as they are about the things she has decided not to include. Each panel is a collection of images taken from life and the natural world-in this case, the scenery she encountered while on residency at the Denali National Park-and abstracted to their most basic forms, which create patterns and shapes that are nonspecific, but unique to each viewer’s experience. A passage, redolent of leaf-like shapes, has the ability to resonate with both real and imagined experiences, and to exist in the liminal place between the two.

Working with oils and glazes, Bumiller’s process is methodical and accumulative, slow and contemplative. The glazes impart a quality of transparency, which coupled with layers of oil paint between help to further abstract, and soften, the forms contained therein.

Trine Bumiller lives and works in Denver, Colorado. She received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island. She has exhibited extensively across the United States, and regularly in New York, Colorado and Chicago.

[Image: Trine Bumiller “Kinnick Kinnick” 2013 Oil on panel, 38 x 86 in.]