Sunday, November 9, 2014

Ilene Adams at Rolando Chang Barrero Fine Art

We All Have Wings, 36 x 36", $2000


Ilene Adams will be represented
by Rolando Chang Barrero Fine Art.

For more information contact the gallery at:
Rolando Chang Barrero Fine Art
On November 21, 2014
Rolando Chang Barrero Fine Art
711 Lucerne Avenue
Lake Worth, Florida 33460
786-521-1199

We're open from 11a.m.-7 p.m.
Closed on Thursdays


"I believe that art and beauty bring joy and wellbeing to individuals and are essential for a well-balanced life.
I work in both mixed media and photography with influences from Robert Rauschenberg and Maxfield Parish.
Rauschenberg’s influence is apparent in my paintings that incorporate paint, collage, photographic images and artifacts. They evoke a feeling of nostalgia or of imaginary places.
My photographs deal mostly with nature, but nature through an intense filter.  Images are put under a microscope and colors are heightened. There is beauty all around us but how often do we take the time to really see it? Ordinary images are enhanced to create painterly new images that leave the viewer wondering if they are paintings or photographs? Abstract or realistic?" -- I.Adams

Skyland, 36 x 36", $2000

Ilene Adams, is a professional painter who has continued to sharpen her palette and compositional skills while searching out new subject matter inspired by nature. Her recent series of large-scale photographic prints could be mistaken initially for a sharp focus oil painting on canvas. This wondrous selection of water reflections from surrounding natural growth topped off with floating green circles of blooming water lilies is a unique extension of the artist's trained eye.  In some of the photographs we are confronted by a series of dazzling reflective vertically vibrating lines that cut through the tint of the water like a sharp knife through butter. Adams likes to integrate a bit of art history in her work where it's useful. She often pays homage to impressionists like Monet connected at the hip with contemporary sensibilities and a flare for vibrant, almost unnatural color. Her painted compositions that are also inspired from the Everglades often center on a single sculptural form of a tropical bird, perhaps standing on one leg surrounded by a robust textural surface of stencil like repeat patterns.” -- Bruce Helander

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