Painter Lisa Warren brings the GREEN this Holiday Season and every day!

FIRST FERN - LISA WARREN Artist Lisa Warren loves nature, and people.  It's the first thing you know when viewing her work.  It's obvious.  I first saw her landscape and nature pieces at a solo show in Salisbury, CT at the newly renovated and expanded Sweet William's. They stopped me in my tracks.  Her use of color and her ability to turn a walk in the woods into a masterful still-life is unique.   I saw the show one Saturday and I couldn't stop thinking about it.  I do love to garden, but this went way beyond my fondness of plants. ONE BRICK HOUSE - LISA WARREN The composition is perfectly balanced, in a completely natural and yet what appears to be random layout.  Her use of color is so powerful, yet soothing.  I couldn't look away.  These landscape works seem to have been a focus for Warren over the course of a few years in 2013-15.  More recently, se has also garnered considerable attention for portraits.  In fact her self portraits are extremely powerful.  ONE YELLOW LEAF - LISA WARREN

Art is many things to many people, and when a work can give me a sudden sense of joy, and calm, and takes all of my focus - that's when I know (at least for me) - I'm witnessing something special. NO GRAB YOU CAN'T - LISA WARREN

I hope you think Lisa Warren is as special as I do.

Her next solo show will be in Sharon, CT during the Month of December and into the new year (through January 14th).   Click over to Gallery STANDARD SPACE to find out more about this show, or over to LISA WARREN 's own site to find out more about her full body of work.   It's worth the clicks!

ART TO BUY - EILEEN MILLAN WATERCOLORS - Sunday 2/21

MAYA, watercolor on paper - EILEEN MILLAN I always say that living in New York City is a luxury for so many reasons, none greater than the creative characters I have been lucky enough to meet - luckier to call friends.   Enter Eileen Millan.  Millan's watercolor paintings and notecards are uniique, powerful, happy, and of course, colorful.   When I met her she was deeply invovled in her "Big Ears" series.  Now the theme has evolved and her work is quite iconic.  If you live in NYC, you might recognize the work from her public shows at several Starbucks locations around town.  

This Sunday, Feb 21st, Eileen will have a public showing and sale at 77 7th Avenue (14th / 15th street) at the Vermeer building during thier "Sundays in the Board Room" series.    Stop by from 1pm-4pm and meet this lovely and talented artist.  How often do you have a chance to connect with an artist one on one?  Her time might be limited as I'm expecting a crowd, but buy her artwork now, while it is still affordable.  I cherish mine! 

If you can't make it on Sunday - contact Ms. Millan directly at Millan77@aol.com

R.I.P. ELLSWORTH KELLY

American artist Ellsworth Kelly has died at the age of 92.  Mr. Kelly was born in Newburgh, NY a city on the Western banks of the Hudson River ( about an hour and a half drive by car).  The formative years of his creative talents were spent in Paris after Worth War II in the late 40's and early 50's.  Mr. Kelly benefitted from the GI Bill to support him as he honed his skill and found his voice as an abstract, modern artist.  His use of bold colors in large sections, was extremely avant garde at the time and rejected at first by much of the art community.  After almost a decade in Paris, Kelly would return to NY and set up a studio on the Lower East Side on NYC.   In the decades since his work gained world wide notoriety, the artist set up his studio in Spencertown, NY in Columbia County.   He would live there until his death on Sunday December 27th.  

To view several wonderful examples of his work - visit the gallery website of  www.MatthewMarks.com

The MOMA website also has extensive examples of Mr. Kelly's work.

ELLSWORTH KELLY - SPECTRUM - 1953