Ellen Stein 2

"Calendar Series: Three Years I" - Contemporary Abstract Collage - de Staël

2020

"Sticking Together III" is a mixed media collage work on canvas featuring red, yellow, teal, white and black. Ellen Kierr Stein is inspired by the works of Nicolas de Staël, Romare B...

"Calendar Series: Four Seasons IV" is a mixed media collage work on canvas featuring hues of blue, yellow, orange, red and black. Ellen Kierr Stein is inspired by the works of Nicolas de Staël, Romare Bearden, Mark English and Nancy Crow...

Lesley Anne Spowart (American, born 1957) "Friendship Garden" 2021 Acrylic Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Canvas The artist signed the back of the painting. Friendship Garden by Lesley ...

Jacqueline Dee Parker’s collages are interdisciplinary in approach and concept. Her materials include antique literature and music books and other ephemera. Just as words, sounds, and images rooted in memory may trigger the composition of a poem, collage is a mode of perception that prompts integration of different sorts of accumulated language. Fragments of lived experience are the bricks and mortar the artist uses to build new spaces informed by time’s passage. Early life in the home of an architect and a violinist shaped Jacqueline Dee Parker’s aesthetic. Exposure to the art of architecture encouraged interest in spatial relationships, taught her to read elevations and visualize their 3-D intentions, and, at construction sites, to appreciate the evolution of concept to form. Music played through and where words ended, roused layers of emotional response, and altered the sense of place and time. Together, these ingredients fostered an affinity for abstraction and design. Jacqueline Dee Parker's "Ars Poetica" series is inspired from the poem of the same name from Roman poet...