Eleanora Kupencow Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
ELEANORA KUPENCOW: BODY PARTS
Paintings and Sculptures by acclaimed artist ELEANORA KUPENCOW - presented by Susan Davis - Eley and
Anderson Contemporary - April 8, 2016 - Anderson Contemporary, 180 Maiden Lane (South Street entrance).
NEW YORK CITY (April, 2016) Vibrant, whimsical sculptures and paintings by Eleanora Kupencow will shine among the guests at Anderson Contemporary on April 8, 2016 during the artist's reception from 6-8pm.
In the first solo show since her extraordinary 2011 exhibition at Galerie Pananti in Florence, Italy, celebrated sculptor/painter Eleanora Kupencow's "Body Parts" showcases a selection of recent paintings, sculptures and Fun Seetz (sculpture for sitting, reclining, climbing). Important paintings in the exhibition include: "Acrobats," depicting a large field of active figures seemingly defying gravity; "Noah's Ark," a whimsical, multi-piece painting resplendent with creatures great and small, each inhabiting a little painted cage all its own; and the piercing "Diamond in a Rectangle," prominent in a palette of gold, silver, black, and white. A variety of shaped canvases form a "parade on wheels" down the gallery hallway, along with a dozen framed works on paper. Kupencow's larger-than life figurative sculptures, "The Interfacing Couple," and "The Jitterbugs," respectively 11' and 10' tall, make a strong statement, along with a wall of 18 of their "maquette" counterparts. The two Fun Seetz on exhibit are "Dash Hound" and "Fat Cat.”
Eleanora Kupencow was born in Greenpoint, Brooklyn and has studios in Dumbo and Southampton. Her interest in art started early. Even as a toddler, her mother used to say that her daughter was "drawing in the air." An early memory of Kupencow's is of playing on her family's Persian carpets, the patterns of which inspired a love of geometry and flat perspective, both important elements of her work. She went on to study Art History at The New School, with a focus on Persian and Indian miniatures, in particular. Another important influence was her painting instructor Evsa Model, husband of the photographer Lisette Model. It was in his classes during the 1950s in Greenwich Village that her work started to take shape, and where she met her late husband, the painter Bertram Alper. Kupencow’s paintings and sculptures are intrinsically related in terms of color, form, theme, and scale, featuring the common elements of joy and movement. In fact, her sculpture literally sprang from her painting a bit more than a decade ago, when she began to cut out shapes in cardboard; later fabricating them in powder-coated aluminum.
Kupencow's sculptures, "Horsing Around the Arrows of Time," were first installed at Dag Hammerskjold Plaza (2008-2009), and then at The Pearl Street Triangle in Dumbo, Brooklyn (2009-2010), and are now permanently installed at The Children's Museum of the East End, in Bridgehampton, NY (2014). Other Kupencow sculptures can be viewed at the LongHouse Reserve gardens in East Hampton, The Romany Kramoris Gallery, in Sag Harbor, NY, and The White Room Gallery, in Bridgehampton, NY. Six of her Fun Seetz are permanently installed at a pedestrian plaza on Old Fulton Street in Dumbo, Brooklyn.
ELEANORA KUPENCOW: BODY PARTS
Paintings and Sculptures by acclaimed artist ELEANORA KUPENCOW - presented by Susan Davis - Eley and
Anderson Contemporary - April 8, 2016 - Anderson Contemporary, 180 Maiden Lane (South Street entrance).
NEW YORK CITY (April, 2016) Vibrant, whimsical sculptures and paintings by Eleanora Kupencow will shine among the guests at Anderson Contemporary on April 8, 2016 during the artist's reception from 6-8pm.
In the first solo show since her extraordinary 2011 exhibition at Galerie Pananti in Florence, Italy, celebrated sculptor/painter Eleanora Kupencow's "Body Parts" showcases a selection of recent paintings, sculptures and Fun Seetz (sculpture for sitting, reclining, climbing). Important paintings in the exhibition include: "Acrobats," depicting a large field of active figures seemingly defying gravity; "Noah's Ark," a whimsical, multi-piece painting resplendent with creatures great and small, each inhabiting a little painted cage all its own; and the piercing "Diamond in a Rectangle," prominent in a palette of gold, silver, black, and white. A variety of shaped canvases form a "parade on wheels" down the gallery hallway, along with a dozen framed works on paper. Kupencow's larger-than life figurative sculptures, "The Interfacing Couple," and "The Jitterbugs," respectively 11' and 10' tall, make a strong statement, along with a wall of 18 of their "maquette" counterparts. The two Fun Seetz on exhibit are "Dash Hound" and "Fat Cat.”
Eleanora Kupencow was born in Greenpoint, Brooklyn and has studios in Dumbo and Southampton. Her interest in art started early. Even as a toddler, her mother used to say that her daughter was "drawing in the air." An early memory of Kupencow's is of playing on her family's Persian carpets, the patterns of which inspired a love of geometry and flat perspective, both important elements of her work. She went on to study Art History at The New School, with a focus on Persian and Indian miniatures, in particular. Another important influence was her painting instructor Evsa Model, husband of the photographer Lisette Model. It was in his classes during the 1950s in Greenwich Village that her work started to take shape, and where she met her late husband, the painter Bertram Alper. Kupencow’s paintings and sculptures are intrinsically related in terms of color, form, theme, and scale, featuring the common elements of joy and movement. In fact, her sculpture literally sprang from her painting a bit more than a decade ago, when she began to cut out shapes in cardboard; later fabricating them in powder-coated aluminum.
Kupencow's sculptures, "Horsing Around the Arrows of Time," were first installed at Dag Hammerskjold Plaza (2008-2009), and then at The Pearl Street Triangle in Dumbo, Brooklyn (2009-2010), and are now permanently installed at The Children's Museum of the East End, in Bridgehampton, NY (2014). Other Kupencow sculptures can be viewed at the LongHouse Reserve gardens in East Hampton, The Romany Kramoris Gallery, in Sag Harbor, NY, and The White Room Gallery, in Bridgehampton, NY. Six of her Fun Seetz are permanently installed at a pedestrian plaza on Old Fulton Street in Dumbo, Brooklyn.