Artist Information:
Toni Silberdelerive
New York, NY
United States
Member Since: Oct 2006
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Artist Statement:
Realistic in my perception and
approach, I paint aerial views
that represent the diverse
places and spaces of the
contemporary landscape.
Pursuing this novel approach
to picture making, one
discovers in the aerial
vantage-point, a modern
perspective and fresh visual
vocabulary. It offers a
viewpoint of reduced depth and
a different perspective,
creating less predictable
detail and more abstract
shapes while retaining the
essence of the area. Drawing
from the elevated position of
high-rise buildings and
commercial jets, I produce
images of cities and towns,
factories and farmlands, power
plants, pastures, and
woodlands.
More than just a recording of
the contemporary landscape, it
is my interpretation and
vision. The paintings combine
elements of abstraction and
representation, pattern and
grid, surface and illusion, as
well as observation,
imagination, and memory.
Whether hovering vertiginously
above city streets and
highways, floating serenely
over the countryside, or
soaring above towns, harbors,
and monuments, I examine the
relationships between the
man-made and the natural,
urban and rural, agrarian and
industrial, and the worlds of
power, labor, and leisure.
My people paintings are also
commentaries. In the
portraits, which are often
from old photographs, I pursue
a stylized impression of
another era. Tastes ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
2008 NY Studio, Chelsea, (NY)
solo show in June
2008 Zimmerli Museum at
Rutgers, NJ acquired painting,
Butte Montana
2008 Interchurch Center (NY)
solo show in March
2007 Kaller Fine Arts,
Washington DC, Group Show
2007 Windham Fine Arts,
Windham, NY Group Show
2007 Opalka Gallery, Albany,
NY, Group Show&<...
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Toni Silberdelerive's Free Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Toni Silberdelerive's Portfolio. Browse Silberdelerive's body of work: Realistic in my perception and approach, I paint aerial views that represent the diverse places and spaces of the contemporary landscape. Pursuing this novel approach to picture making, one discovers in the aerial vantage-point, a modern perspective and fresh visual vocabulary. It offers a viewpoint of reduced depth and a different perspective, creating less predictable detail and more abstract shapes while retaining the essence of the area. Drawing from the elevated position of high-rise buildings and commercial jets, I produce images of cities and towns, factories and farmlands, power plants, pastures, and woodlands.
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