NoA Exhibition Pick: Susan Arena
Susan Arena's "Imaginary Homelands" - Feb 26-Mar 25, 2011
825 North La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90069
From the gallery notes:
Arena uses found materials – bits of lace and pieces of quilt – that conjure home, but are then transformed and comingled with painted figures. Paint finds its way out of the canvas, out onto the frame itself, which shows that the paintings, while about imaginary homelands are also very much tactile objects that hang on people’s walls.
Her work is consciously simplistic in the mode of folk art, and highly personal in nature. The theme of Susan Arena's work revolves around mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, parents and children. These archetypal roles trap us and also free us. Her work addresses these powerful forces in often simple and disarming ways.
Her work is consciously simplistic in the mode of folk art, and highly personal in nature. The theme of Susan Arena's work revolves around mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, parents and children. These archetypal roles trap us and also free us. Her work addresses these powerful forces in often simple and disarming ways.
Bio:
Susan Arena earned an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale School of Art and studied figurative painting at the New York Studio School. She also studied women’s folk painting in rural India. Arena’s work in painting is largely influenced by her love of other cultures and their art and customs. Arena has lived and worked in New York City and taught drawing and painting at numerous institutions there. Her work in painting and drawing has been exhibited extensively and has been widely collected. Arena received her undergraduate degree from Harvard College with a concentration in Visual and Environmental Studies and upon graduating was awarded a traveling fellowship, allowing her to live and paint in Cairo, Egypt. Arena lives and works in Los Angeles.
Susan Arena earned an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale School of Art and studied figurative painting at the New York Studio School. She also studied women’s folk painting in rural India. Arena’s work in painting is largely influenced by her love of other cultures and their art and customs. Arena has lived and worked in New York City and taught drawing and painting at numerous institutions there. Her work in painting and drawing has been exhibited extensively and has been widely collected. Arena received her undergraduate degree from Harvard College with a concentration in Visual and Environmental Studies and upon graduating was awarded a traveling fellowship, allowing her to live and paint in Cairo, Egypt. Arena lives and works in Los Angeles.
The opening reception is on Saturday, February 26th from 6:00 to 9:00pm.
Usual gallery hours are 10:00am - 5:00pm, Tuesday - Saturday or by appointment.
Posted by Elliot V. Kotek at 2/15/2011 1:15 PM 
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