new voices new visions exhibition catalog
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Gallery Bergelli is presenting New Voices – New Visions – a group exhibition featuring new work by Bay Area artists: Eliza Bui, Teymur Guseynov, Ivy Jacobsen, Li Ma, Jeff Snell, and Marie Van Elder. This exhibition opens on March 14 and continues through April 17, 2013. The reception will be held on March 23, from 4-6pm with the Best of Show Award presentation at 5pm.TRANSCRIPT
New Voices - New Visions
Eliza Bui, Teymur Guseynov, Ivy Jacobsen, Li Ma, Jeff Snell, Marie Van Elder
New Voices - New VisionsNew work by Bay Area Artists
Eliza BuiTeymur GuseynovIvy JacobsenLi MaJeff SnellMarie Van Elder
Marie Van Elder, Girl with BirdsOil collage on Canvas 50”x28”, $3400
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Li Ma is currently working on her MFA in Painting at the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work is a diorama of an imaginative
world where landscape and cityscape blend into each other in an atmosphere of balance and harmony. The pictorial structure
and cheerful colors borrow from Buddhism, Taoism, traditional Chinese paintings and Asian architecture. The setting is based
on the traditional Chinese garden, which provides a panoramic view of space, a sense of timelessness, and uncovers the hidden
relationship between human and cosmos.
Eliza Bui is a recent graduate of San Jose State University’s Pictorial Art program. Inspired by Bay Area Figurative Move-
ment artist Diebenkorn, Eliza Bui developed a very strong interest in composition in her artwork. She uses various 2D materials
such as graphite, charcoal, oil paint, and silk screening. Bui’s interest is in the representation of distances. Distances can refer
to landscapes, the outreach of a possibility, moving mountains, or in actual miles. Her artwork shows the limitlessness between
representation and abstraction, composition and space.
Teymur Guseynov’s focus is on painting and ceramics, although fundamentally different from one another, working with
oils, as well as with clay, fascinates him as an artist. Open to experimentation, he lets the subconscious guide him, the results
are often unexpectedly satisfying in creating representational semi-abstract works with subtle hints of symbolism that in one
way or another echo his inner world. He is currently a senior undergraduate art practice major at UC Berkeley.
Marie Van Elder starts with the visually familiar and translates the seen through the personal lens and touch, infusing it
with psychological undertone and quiet contemplation, using references such as media images, girlhood memories, teen culture,
fairy tales, fashion, old masters paintings, collage etc…to explore endless possibilities of figurative painting.
Ivy Jacobsen strives to create a place of magical realism in her landscapes, balancing magical elements with real world
rendering of flora and fauna found in our natural world. She uses oil paint, bronzing powder, earth pigments, acrylic paint, resin,
and other mixed media on canvas and birch panel in creating her paintings. They are composed of many thin layers of glazes
slowly built up over time. Through the multiple semi-transparent layers all the colors are visible creating a glowing depth of field.
By painting the trees and plant forms in between the layers of glazes the forms begin to occupy various spaces in the foreground
and background, further creating the illusion of depth.
Jeff Snell’s paintings unite traditional landscapes and popular culture as vigorous abstract rhythms. Working with brush
and spray, Snell uses expressive gestures that incorporate a variety of forms found in nature and elements of urban flair. The
organic qualities of his subjects vacillate from flora to fauna, and the natural position and order of a landscape is challenged
in an unruly microcosm. His paintings radiate an energy and excitement that engage the viewer and offer a glimpse of nature’s
inner sanctum.
Girl and Thistles, Oil on Linen, 30”x24”, $2900
Girl and Pig (Red Shirt), Oil on Linen, 30”x24”, $2900
Girl and Pig, Oil on Linen, 30”x24”, $2900
Girl and Goats, Oil on Linen, 30”x24”, $2900
Peaceable Kingdom, Oil on Linen, 60”x48”, $4900
Marie Van Elder
Into Blue, Oil and Resin on Panel, 24”x48”, $2800
Birds Life, Oil on Panel, 36”x48”, $3400
Forest Glow, Oil on Panel, 12”x12”, $700
Smoke Bush 2, Oil and Bronzing Powder on Panel, 24”x12”, $1250
Ivy Jacobsen
Baby Animal Dream, Watercolor and Pencil on paper, 30”x20”, $1450
Snow Mountain, Acrylic Ink and Chinese Ink, 54”x35”, $2200
Li Ma
Elephant Tower, Sculpture is Wood and Thread and Acrylic; and Acrylic Ink on Paper mounted on Canvas, 10”x10”x32”, $2200
Coral Mountain, Acrylic Ink and Chinese Ink, 54”x35”, $2200
011912 6:22am, Oil on Canvas, 36”x48”, $800
05-29-12 7:45pm, Oil on Canvas, 30”x40”, $600
Eliza Bui
011812 4:32am, Oil on Canvas, 36”x48”, $800
120211 12:35pm, Oil on Canvas, 36”x48”, $800
Untitled, Oil on Canvas, 12”x16”, $800
Different, Oil on Canvas, 12”x16”, $800
Teymur Guseynov
Dream, Oil on Canvas Board, 9”x12”, $750
Forest Temple, Acrylic and Enamel on Canvas, 48”x60”, $2500
Jeff Snell
Canyon, Acrylic and Enamel on Canvas, 48”x60”, $2450
© 2013 Gallery Bergelli. All rights reserved. 483 Magnolia Avenue, Larkspur, CA 94939, www.bergelli.com, 415-945-9454
New Voices – New Visions is made possible in part by the generous support of
Lori Saia Odisio of Decker Bullock Sotheby’s International Realty, the Women
Leadership and Philanthropy Council of Dominican University of California, and
Stanly T. Gray of Meridian Surveying Engineering Inc.