Nancy Balliett and Louise Kalin

First Street Gallery

poster for Nancy Balliett and Louise Kalin

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NANCY BALLIETT: Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1938, Nancy Balliett has been painting for almost thirty years and has appeared in countless group and one-person shows. Her pictures are in many collections, private and public. She works in plein air in both pastels and oils, but concentrates on pastels, relishing their subtlety and plasticity and calmness.

Nancy 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. Whatever she paints. she supersedes style by doing each picture, no matter the subject, with imagination, respect, and her unique lyricism.

LOUISE KALIN: These recent experimental etchings, monotypes, and monoprints celebrate the transparent patterns of water and its reflective surface in the landscape. Each print is a unique variation. Multiple colors of ink, applied in many ways, combine with the characteristics of the plate and different papers when they are rolled through the press under pressure. The right alchemy and meticulous technique enhances and brings up the image.

The reflections of light on water, the time of day or night, and the infinity of the horizon are never the same. Living near or on water much of my life, I’ve seen dams break, and clear waters compromised by pollution. I’ve also seen the tides come and go, and watched the water’s miraculous ability to clarify when the winds die down and the sun comes out.

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from November 04, 2014 to November 29, 2014

Opening Reception on 2014-11-06 from 18:00 to 20:00

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