Wednesday 8th of September 2010

Elissa _ Gore

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Artist Statement:

"I paint large, atmospheric landscapes.  My works are meditations on harmony in nature.  I looks for places where the balance of natural elements: sky, earth, trees and water evoke a sense of "stopped time."

This artist delights in changes in the atmosphere and the color of light. In these paintings, color and experience resonate to create form.


About the Artist:

Once strictly a watercolorist, fifteen years ago Gore began to add oil pastel to her works to solidify the appearance of the land and trees. She explains, "When we look at a landscape we perceive two different kinds of light. The light that illuminates the sky is transmitted light and is very bright. I use watercolor to paint it, because I can get the purest bright color. When this light strikes the ground, it becomes reflected light, The colors that result are darker and more complex. I use oil pastel to describe them because of the rich solid darks it produces. The contrast between the two media mirrors this difference in the quality of light and gives my paintings their luminous skies."

In the past ten years, she has refined her focus again, working out these ethereal compositions in oil paint on linen canvas. A part-time resident of Treadwell NY for many years, the long breathtaking views in Delaware county, NY  have deeply influenced her vision.

Gore has exhibited widely, both in solo and group exhibitions across the United States. Besides Vivana Hansen Gallery, she shows with Markel Fine Arts in New York City and in galleries across the country.

She has received many awards in national juried exhibitions, including the bronze medal from the Baltimore Watercolor Society and merit awards from the Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors and the Watercolor Society of Alabama. The Cooperstown Art Association has honored her with awards five times. She is a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild and The Hambidge Center (Georgia.)

Besides many private collections, her works are displayed in six hospitals and over forty corporations, including American Express, Federal Reserve Bank of NY, Fidelity Investments, Hallmark, McGraw-Hill, Morgan Bank, Pfizer, TIAA/CREF, USAA, the U. S. State Department and the Vanguard Group.


Elissa Gore was born in Philadelphia in 1950. She studied painting and sculpture at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design and medical Illustration at the University of Texas. She has taught at Parsons School of Design, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Pace University Lehman College and the New York Botanical Garden over the past twenty years. Currently, she devotes all her time to landscape painting. She works in Northern Manhattan studio and on site in upstate New York.



 


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