Nancy Balliett "Then and Now"
First Street Gallery
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Nancy Balliett is a very modern landscape painter (Long Island, Cape Cod, Florida, Lake Como, Venice) who passes into her subject, finds its spirit, and translates it into colors and shapes and rhythms that become a surprising alterscape. You know you are seeing a tree or a moon, but it is a wholly original tree, a wholly original moon. Her pictures challenge, then surround you.
This unsigned shout of acclaim appeared recently in The New Yorker: "Bonnard-like breakfast tables in bright yellows and plum purples, stands of leafy blue-and-ochre trees, and cathedral-dominated skylines smacked with patches of lipstick red - Balliett's evocations of Nantucket and Venice, in oil paintings and pastel drawings, are coloristically agitated but atmospherically peaceful."
[Image: Nancy Balliett "Day Lilies" (2011) pastel on sandpaper 36 x 24 in.]
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from November 01, 2011 to December 03, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-11-03 from 18:00 to 20:00