Time: September 12, 2013 to October 20, 2013
Location: 440 Gallery
Street: 6th Avenue
City/Town: Park Slope, Brooklyn, 11215
Website or Map: http://www.440gallery.com
Phone: 718-499-3844
Event Type: exhibition
Organized By: 440 Gallery
Latest Activity: Sep 9, 2013
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Brooklyn, NY -- As a fitting tribute to the end of summer, 440 Gallery hosts Paesaggio, a series of lush landscape paintings by two artists. In this show, her second at 440 Gallery, Susan Greenstein teams up with her husband Phil DeSantis to highlight the relationship between each others works. Greenstein and DeSantis have been painting side by side for over 25 years. Most recently, they clambered out onto the roof of a 15th century building in Siena, Italy; captured the Dutch-style architecture in gritty Red Hook, Brooklyn; and painted en plein-air at a pastoral New Hampshire dairy farm. Their styles are similar in spirit, but distinctly different in application and palette. Paesaggio celebrates their journey together as landscape painters.
Each artist draws their inspiration from a moment in time at a certain place. Greenstein finds intriguing subjects in her local community gardens and neighborhoods, as well as at destinations shared with DeSantis. She explores the landscape using a rich tapestry of color and texture created with oil pastels on a dark ground. At other times, she uses mark-making with watercolor to capture the essence of a scene. Greenstein's sketchbooks of painted studies and line drawings, which are also on view, provide a window into her process. She frequently uses these sketches to develop larger works.
DeSantis works predominately in strong layers of jewel-like watercolor washes with an emphasis on describing landscape and architecture through light and shadow. These paintings reveal his deep fascination with industrial structures, and he attempts to preserve them through his paintings as they continue to disappear from our landscape. DeSantis also finds much of his inspiration locally, from the wide open spaces of Brighton Beach to the brownstone-lined streets of Park Slope.
Paesaggio opens at the 440 Gallery, located at 440 Sixth Avenue in Brooklyn, on Thursday, September 12, with a reception for the artists from 6:00-9:00 PM, and will run through Sunday, October 20, 2013.
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