Elise Freda “The Continuing Line”
Causey Contemporary
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Causey Contemporary presents The Continuing Line, an exhibition of new paintings by Elise Freda. This exhibition will mark Mrs. Freda’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery and indeed in New York City. Her paintings most recently appeared in Manhattan in a curation by D.Dominick Lombardi entitled A Tangled Web, which was also hosted by Causey Contemporary.
The title of this exhibit, The Continuing Line, evolved from Freda’s recognition that line has been a constant in her work since 1980. “The line starts as part of the underpainting, weaves through the building of layers, and ends up on the surface of my paintings and works on paper,” said Freda.
Mrs. Freda’s paintings explore a world of contrast: light/dark, warm/cool, surface/depth, and organic/ geometric. Her work is process oriented, and she finds her image during that making. “All of the changes, additions and subtractions become part of the finished work,” she explains. “I enjoy the mystery of abstraction, the unknown eventually evolving in to the known.” The paintings are both abstract and based in nature as Elise finds her shapes, colors, spaces, textures and lines in the trees, plants, fields, mountains and skies that surround her studio in Callicoon’s rolling beechwoods.
Elise first came to the Upper Delaware River Valley from New Jersey in 1965 when her parents, Fred and Helga Andkjar, both artists, bought a farmhouse with land and a barn for a studio in Callicoon. She then e returned to the river valley in 1993 with her husband, Joe when she became Gallery Director for the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance a position she held for several years.
Ms. Freda has been developing and exhibiting her paintings since 1990. Her works have appeared in both group and solo shows throughout the Eastern United States at such places as the Randall Beck Gallery in Boston, Stephen Haller Gallery in New York, the Lorraine Kessler Gallery in Poughkeepsie, the Banana Factory in Pennsylvania, The Delaware Arts Center, the Amarillo Museum of Art, Binghamton University and Skidmore College among others. Her works are in the permanent collections of Coventry Paper, Canter Fitzgerald and Champion Paper. Additionally, they have been published in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Brooklyn Rail, The Boston Globe and the Times Herald Record.
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Schedule
from September 09, 2015 to October 11, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-09-09 from 18:00 to 20:00