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| 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
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"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
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| 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
