Sandra Lerner ” A Journey”

June Kelly Gallery

poster for Sandra Lerner ” A Journey”

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Lerner, who has been described as a romantic visionary, provides insights in her art into inescapable truths, but her paintings also please the eye and afford aesthetic pleasure.

Critic Donald Kuspit, who wrote an essay in the exhibition invitation, says Lerner’s works “seem rooted in the grand tradition of romantic landscape painting, with the landscape reduced to its abstract fundamentals, streamlined to its expressive essentials.”

But Kuspit added that the elements of her paintings suggest that “something more is at stake than romantically suggestive pure art.”

The horizon line in Lerner’s paintings is in perpetual movement, in endless flux. In some works, Kuspit says, the line seems seductive, even voluptuous, while in others it seems agitated and tense, as though a nerve at loose ends. Sometimes it seems labored, at other times it flows effortlessly.

But, says Kuspit, whatever its expressive effect and momentum, and whether it alludes to the horizon or “exists for its own pure abstract sake, Lerner’s line is inevitable, unstoppable, constant.” It is more metaphysical than physical, he writes, and signifies universal creativity.
“The over-all geometry and atmosphere of Lerner’s paintings – their tightly closed planes, sacred architecture, and subtle luminosity and intense energy, just as indwelling – suggest their meditative character,” he writes. “Clearly the central sacred structure – symbolizing the spiritual aspiration of the painting as a whole – is a meditative device.”

“Lerner repeats it like the sacred syllable ‘om,’” Kuspit continues, “inducing a similar exalted, transcendent state of mind. Her paintings convey this altered consciousness even as they ‘demonstrate’ the process of alteration.

“They remind us that there is more than one kind of consciousness, just as string theory reminds us that there is more than one universe. Lerner is an ecstatic mystic, her whole being in touch with the Tao through the medium of paint.

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from October 15, 2015 to November 14, 2015

Artist(s)

Sandra Lerner

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