Of Line and Light:

new works by Michael Fauerbach and Jenny Nelson

The Chace-Randall Gallery presents Of Line and Light, new works by Michael Fauerbach and Jenny Nelson, August 18 – October 1. A Reception for the Artists is Saturday, August 19, 5 – 7 p.m.

Subtleties of line and light are the essence of this distinctive exhibition of abstract and landscape painting. Working in acrylic on paper, Michael Fauerbach at once captures the seeming lost integrity of many tumbledown Catskill Mountain barns and sheds, as well as the well worn nature of those still of purpose and respect. Jenny Nelson renders subtle layers of greens, grays and blues--flawless touches of yellow and seamless patches of translucency and light in oil on canvas. The common denominator that unites these two artists is mastery of line.

“Although my early artistic training was focused on the classical and representational, it has always been my natural instinct to depict my surroundings in abstract forms. Most of the paintings evolve as a subconscious reaction to places I have been or the spaces I have encountered or lived in throughout my life,” says Nelson, always striving for the emergence of a “very personal abstract language.”

Jenny Nelson grew up in the North Eastern corner of Connecticut. She attended Maine College of Art in Portland, ME, and graduated with a BFA from Bard College, where she received a scholarship to the Lacoste School of the Arts in France. For the past 12 years she has been living and working in Woodstock NY, including a 2004 artist residency at the Byrdcliffe Art Colony in Woodstock. Her work has been shown widely in the New England and Hudson Valley regions,

Denver resident Michael Fauerbach began his painting career in New York City, gravitating to old abandoned buildings in the Bronx as his subject matter—much in the same way that he is drawn to our abandoned barns and outbuildings in the Catskills.  He studied painting, printmaking and illustration at the School of Visual Arts, NYC, in the early sixties and began exhibiting his realist paintings in NYC shortly thereafter. His exhibition history includes the NoHo Gallery, NYC, Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and The Catskill Center Erpf Gallery, Arkville, among others. He is collected by Robert Wood Johnson College, New Brunswick, NJ, and the Purchase Dean Library Collection of Rutgers University, as well as many private collections.

“The work of Michael Fauerbach and Jenny Nelson pairs so perfectly, as do their individual standings as well respected artists painting in the Catskills today,” says Chace-Randall Gallery Owner/Director  Zoe Randall. “A client of the gallery recently told me that Jenny is the ‘belle of the ball’ in Woodstock. The ball continues in Andes,” adds Randall.

Please call 845.676.4901 or email zoe@chacerandallgallery.com for more information.