FRACTURE, a gallery artists exhibition

Flavia Bacarella, The Silo, 2023, 12 x 12 inches, oil on canvas,
$950 available on Artsy

"A shifting perspective; fragments of a landscape distorted and seen in a glance."

Margot Bittenbender, Looking for My Self, 2016, 18 x 24 inches, intaglio print,
$1200, available on Artsy

"Artist, mother, wife, lover, daughter, sister, caregiver. Wondering how to be all of these, and if, indeed, there is ever one self, one single woman."

Patty Bouley, A Big Uncertainty, End Point, Second, 2023, Collage, 2.5 x 3 inches

"Feelings of fissure and incomplete thoughts trigger emotions. Shifts in perspective lead to explorations of identity and profound change. Fracture is around and within us.  So is our ability to heal."

Marcie Bronkar, Building Blocks, 2020, acrylic on canvas,
$3000, available on Artsy

"The layers of paint unraveling on the canvas surface present a compelling composition broken down into sections or fractures. "

Katharine Cosenza Butler, Riverside Rebellion, 2023, etching and mixed media, 23 x 20 inches,
framed, $950, available on Artsy

" In this piece we see the beginnings of the fracturing of the old, as Nature works slowly but surely to reclaim balance."

Rani Carson, Loss, 11 x 12 inches, gouache on board, $1500, available on Artsy

Grant Drumheller, Stonington Sky, 2023, 16 x 20 inches, oil,
$3000 contact artist for info.

"The clouds were these husky mountainous clusters cleaved diagonally. The longer I paint, the more mutable essences become; objects melt into strokes of color and soft elements, e.g., a cloud or smoke become more durably structural. “

Robyn Whitney Fairclough, I’ll Return, 32 x 28 inches, oil, 2012
$3500
 , available on Artsy
"I'll Return ... represents 'human disconnect,' and conjures a certain kind of isolation, a life shattered, while navigating grief. "

Diana Freedman-Shea, Fractured Lake View, 2023, 30 x 24 inches, oil,
$2000, available on Artsy

"A fracture can be violent or subtle. Either can disrupt communication, create chaos or a lack of continuity. This disconnect can be apparent in our visual  world, political world and social  interactions."

Pearl Golden Rosen, 2024, Sorrow and Grace in the Fractures,
Acrylic over acrylic ink and iridescent ink on paper mounted on board,
18” x 18,” $1000, available on Artsy
"A painterly exploration of Yael Aravah Shuldman’s quote 'How much sorrow and how much grace will we discover in the cracks of the fractures.'"

Nancy Grilikhes, The Rebel Stars Have No Pity,
2024, 15x10.25 inches, pastel, $1200

"Palette Knife Lost in a Fractured Picture Plane."

Larry Groff, A Fracture of the Facture, 2024, 8.5 x 8.5 inches, acrylic,
$400, available on Artsy

"Certain starfish regenerate a new body from just one arm if they retain their central disk.  Once the central core is fractured, the starfish falls apart.  The fracture of structure is this painting's motif."

Elizabeth Higgins, Moonlight on Water #1, 16 x 12 inches, watercolor monoprint,
$1600, available on Artsy

"Moonlight comforts the shore…its stillness broken on the water."

Arthur Hughes, Autumn, Newkit Bluff, 2023, pen and ink on paper, 14 x 17.5 inches,
$1500, contact artist for info.

Renee Khatami, Averill Park, 2023,
combined media (water-based paint, media pencil, cut marks) on 300 lb. paper,
40 x 29 inches, available on Artsy

"In Averill Park, muted colors and shapes are 'below' the surface, the sharper more vibrant shapes are quietly fracturing the surface."

Randy Klinger, Self Portrait 72, 18 x 22 inches, 2023, Graphite on antique paper,
$1000, available on Artsy

"My aim is to create a presence and palpable illusionistic form. Rather than depicting the figure in a naturalistic approach, I offer a fractured view of the figure, so that the viewer can imagine what cannot be seen directly, and hopefully discover a figure even more real and tangible."

Arthur Kvarnstrom, Backyard #12, 2021, drawing, 9 x 11.5 inches,
$500, available on Artsy

"I feel it is the artist’s job to fracture established rules. This is, to me, the path to creativity."

Gerald Marcus, Rockface, 2009, etching, 7 x 5 inches
$400, contact artist for info.

"Out of the crevice that began as a fracture, trees grow."

Ellen Piccolo, Waiting for the World to Change, 2022, 39 x 39 inches,
$1600, available on Artsy

"Most events don't immediately impact our lives.  But with enough fractures they can and the world becomes dark and bleak."

Mary Salstrom, Forest Light From the Path, 2005, oil on canvas, 22x24,
$2000, available on Artsy

"The mysterious, infinite space of a forest is seen and felt as light fractures colors and forms of tangled leaves and branches." 

Wendy Shalen, Reykjavik Volcanic Eruption, 2020, kiln formed glass slider, 12 x 12,
$1500, available on Artsy

"Shattering an unsatisfactory fired glass piece, I set up an abstract composition of multiple colored glass shards which when refired became this abstraction of the Reykjavik, Iceland volcanic eruption.  My act of destruction did fracture the initial piece and with the kiln’s intense heat, the fractures flowed together as in a volcanic eruption."

Stewart Siskind, 7th Avenue, 2023, 15 x 15 inches, framed 21 x 21 inches,
photography, collage, pigment print on archival paper,
$1200, available on Artsy

"During the pandemic, walking in deserted Manhattan streets, I was drawn to torn, distressed surfaces that once were pristine. I saw a new way to do collage photographically, moving and subtracting elements digitally vs. more traditional analog ways."

Susan Sussman, Slot Canyon, 2023, pastel, 30 x 22 inches, NFS,

"Over time, even the strongest of things can come apart. Rock can fracture when stress exceeds the rock strength. A metaphor for our moment."

Preston Trombly, Bill of Lading: Handle With Care, 2022,
mixed media collage on stretched canvas, 48 x 28inches,
$3950, available on Artsy
"A mixed media work is the opposite of a 'Fracture.'  Collage-making is a little Humpty-Dumpty-ish, although it’s putting pieces together that didn’t go together in the first place.  It’s the making of something new and whole out of elements that initially had nothing to do with each other."

Margaret Tsirantonakis, Faraggi, 2024, 14 x 11 inches,
$900, available on Artsy

"This work is about using line, color and paint to try to make something whole during a fractured time.  My initial inspiration was walking through gorges in Crete, which were created by Earth’s fracturing over millions of years".

Michael Walden, In Praise of Shadow, 2023, 15.5 x 15.5 inches, multi-plate lithograph,
$1200, available on Artsy

"Fear, Greed, selfishness are forces that fracture society. Is it the role of artists to mirror society as it is, or find a better way.  Can our work lead us to optimism?"

Katie Weiss, Trees, 2024, monotype with gouache and pastel, 24 x 18,”
$600, contact artist for info

"The form of a tree in this monotype breaks or fractures the picture plane into distinct areas of dark and light. "

Gina Werfel Trees, 2024, monotype with gouache and pastel, 24 x 18,
$600 Gina Werfel, Interruption, 2023-24, 14 x 33 inches, acrylic and mixed media,
$800 ea $2400 for the set, available on Artsy

"A three-part section of a grid exposes irregular fields of fractured colors."

Yookan Westfield, Alas! We are Still Arriving, 2023, 36 x 30 inches, acrylic,
$2300, available on Artsy

"Two lives emerge from the fractures."