Wendy Shalen
Becoming Abstract
Painting in Kilnformed Glass,Pigmented Handmade Paper and Pastel
October 5 through October 30, 2021
Saturday, October 23rd at 3:00 pm
Wendy Shalen will give a “walk and talk” presentation to describe basic handmade paper techniques as well as fusing glass techniques with materials set up to see the processes.\
Ms. Shalen will be at the gallery during the opening, and on each Saturday from 11 am to 6 pm
Working both abstractly and realistically in multiple media, Shalen creates large handmade pigmented pulp landscapes and small, vibrant glass panels from representational plein air pastel and oil paintings, and watercolor portrait studies.
Wendy Shalen, an Instructor of Drawing, Painting and Portfolio Development at the Art Students League of New York since 2005, works in multiple media from observation and from her imagination, starting with watercolor, pastel and oil color landscape and portrait studies, which she then transposes into large pigmented handmade paper pulp landscapes and fused glass paintings.
Exhibited work in her current show will mix smaller, realistic and carefully observed pastel plein air landscapes of Martha’s Vineyard, with large abstract HMP ocean views. The large handmade paper seascapes are aerial views, some revealing embedded plastic ropes and debris, floating with the currents. Ms. Shalen’s work continues to be concerned with the degradation of our oceans and our environment due to floating plastic caused by human carelessness. Her watercolors of MV seascapes are shown alongside kiln formed and abstracted glass panels of ocean waves. There are also subtle and dramatic small glass panels–the results of Shalen experimenting with the chemical reactions in the kiln between copper, sulfur and lead infused glass.
View Online Presentation Here
Artist Website wendyshalen.com/
View the companion Artsy online exhibition Wendy Shalen | Becoming Abstract on Artsy
view Press Release for Wendy Shalen | Becoming Abstract.
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