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Artist Exhibitions:
.May 2001 - "2001 BFA
Exhibition" - University Art
Gallery, Montclair, NJ
.January 2001 - Solo - A
Retrospective:
"Being/Transcendence" -
Clifton Arts Center, Clifton,
NJ
.Summer 2000 - Solo - "A
Celebration of Inner Being"
paintings and award winning
poems - Nowculture.com, NY
.November 1999 - Juried
exhibit "Spiritual Dimensions
'99" - St. John's Gallery,
Newark...
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Artist Reviews:
."Arts in Clifton", art
discussion for local TV
station Clifton, NJ, August
2001
."Being-Transcendence",
Passaic County Artsnews",
January 2001
."Artis Paints Quest for
Spiritual Growth", Region
Herald News, January 9, 2001
."Artist Looks up to Find
Guidance", Dateline Journal,
January 25, 2001
."Clifton Arts Center
Welcomes 'Sacred' Exhibit",
Dateline...
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Collections:
Ms. M. Monohan, Dumont, NJ,
USA
Dr. Sheila Nagar, S. Orange,
NJ, USA
Mrs. Bernstein, FL, USA
Mr. Labriola, Clifton, NJ, USA
Mr. L. Monteverde, Lisbon,
Portugal...
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Commissions:
Ms. Melissa Monohan, NJ, USA
Mr. and Mrs. Monteverde,
Portugal...
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Artist Statement for Henrietta Andersen
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It all started with the desire to express the human being purely and simply as Being, a grain of sand in the immensity of the Universe, and the feeling of transcendence in the Cosmos. That which makes us all equal, independent from historical periods, race, religion, gender, age, and culture, that which is our very essence. For that I created a visual vocabulary that would symbolize what I was trying to express. A simple human silhouette represented the human being. Sand was formally used for its interesting textural qualities, conceptually, for its ephemeral nature.
As is natural of any artistic journey, the work progressed into the white series when I realized I could express the almost ineffable concept of “being” in a much simpler composition. I then eliminated the figure and the bright colors, limiting my palette to soft whites or blacks and such neutral colors that would evoke silence and a meditative state. The act of throwing the sand onto the wet painted canvas between consecutive layers of translucent paint, powder pigments and gloss medium resulted in a series of highly reductive monochromatic compositions that functioned as a metaphor for the great vastness of our cosmos, ontology, silence………It all became so simple. Through abstraction I was painting the essence.
On a trip out West I saw the Desert, the rock formations, and while contemplating the wonders of Nature I realized I no longer needed the neutral white colors, for the Blues of the Oceans and Skies were just as boundless to our eyes and so were the greens, yellows, reds and oranges, and then, I became free. All the colors are interconnected, and so are all the shapes, and everything is part of everything, making up the infinite whole. And we, our lives, our natural and man-made surroundings, and our concept of time, are but microcosms of the great Cosmos, and everything is a constant circle. The Universe is abstract. Life is abstract. Painting now is as simple as life. It has become the very liberation I tried to express all these years. The process itself is now the philosophy. Colors are splattered on the canvas, and a composition begins to take form. When it sings its poetry to me, I stop. It is harmony. It is freedom.
Henrietta Andersen
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