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July Issue 2004
Summit One Gallery in Highlands, NC, Offers Works by Vivian Jendzio
The
Summit One Gallery in Highlands, NC, will present the exhibition,
Vivian Jendzio: It's All About Movement, from July 31 through
Sept. 1, 2004.
Jendzio has exhibited in the Southeast and Midwest, winning awards in several shows including the Purchase Award in the 35th Annual Halifax Arts Festival. As an instructor of two and three dimensional art classes at the Gainesville Creative Arts Association and the Santa Fe Community College, located in her home town of Gainesville, FL, Jendzio shares her passion and educational background in fine arts with the next generation of Florida artists.
Acrylic and oil paint, watercolor, ink charcoal
and metal leaf are combined expressively in Jendzio's mixed media
collages on paper enhancing the kinetic energy that is so evident
in her work. Jendzio's combination of sheer luminosity and opacity
creates vibrant tensions allowing the underlying images in her
work to take on a life of their own.
Jendzio says of her work, "Painting on paper is essential
to the immediacy and spontaneity of which my artwork derives.
The image changes as the layers are built up particularly in the
collages. The brushstrokes are large and direct. The imagery becomes
richer and further tactile due to the process of layering the
paint and paper. It is through the combination of sheer luminosity
and opacity which creates vibrant tensions while the underlying
images show through. The painting becomes a kinetic creation as
the image transforms. Many drawings and studies are completed
prior to the gestural pieces. It is through this exploration which
enables only the essence to be conveyed."
"After intense anatomical drawing, studies of light on form,
the pieces are ready to begin," adds Jendzio. "The paintings
are built up gradually layer upon layer. Each layer must dry completely
before the series of glazing and impasto may be applied. The layers
consist of various mediums from acrylic, enamel, watercolor, ink,
pastel, charcoal and pencil. The work becomes very intense and
autonomic. Because of the in depth analysis of the subjects the
pieces are depicted with complete feeling and emotion. Painting
and drawing have become intuitive and entwined as one. The artwork
derives to communicate the struggle for life and the impermanence
of our existence. Nature's internal powers have become the source
of inspiration for my paintings. They reflect weight and balance,
power and release, synchronization and contraposition. Many paintings
utilize opposition through use of color, split planes and visual
fields. It is through these visual forces which reveal the dynamics
and the internalization of energy, life and the reverence for
it."
For further information check our NC Commercial Gallery listings, call the gallery at 828/526-2673, e-mail at (summitonegallery@aol.com) or at (www.summitonegallery.com).
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