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Adjacent To Life, presents Fragments of Light by Sandy Van Iderstine.
Leon Brown writes:
Sandy Van Iderstine brings us her most recent collection. Created in her New York and Toronto studios, these paintings represent 2024 and 2025 to date.
The genesis of these works can be found in palette shavings retrieved from the painting process. Van Iderstine collects, archives and considers these palette skins.
This studio ephemera these relics of creative activity - are then revivified as the material basis for her new paintings. They serve as both starting point and through line for the delectation of painting as a cumulative endeavor and the natural world as the undergirding source of sustenance.
The artist states, My work invites the viewer to explore a unique interplay of shapes, colours, transparencies and textures to create a dynamic and engaging visual experience.
These paintings invite us into spaces far bigger than the form in which they are contained. Van Iderstines attention to detail - every square inch is meditated upon in order to illuminate the whole eschews artifacts, providing us with an immersive adventure, peering through flora and circumnavigating clouds on a wave of iridescence.
With precision and natural depth Van Iderstine provokes thoughts of Constable and Turner, up close and candid.
Fragments of Light is on view through May 16, 2025 at the Adjacent To Life gallery housed in Ninth Street Espresso (341 E. 10th Street at Ave B, New York City). Artist's reception: Saturday, April 19, 7:00 - 9:00 pm.
