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Leo
Coimbra is a Brazilian artist from the "utopian" modernist city
of Brasilia. As such, her work draws from a vocabulary inspired by concrete
poetry, concretism, geometric photography, Bossa Nova music, and the modernist
architecture of Oscar Niemeyer and Athos Bulczo. It aims to combine the
symbolic geometric language of forms derived from modernism and constructivism
into a private archeological and magical visual experience. Leo Coimbra
has an extensive record of exhibitions since 1995, having one person shows
in Brasilia and Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in Lima, Peru and in Quito, Ecuador.
In 2002 she exhibited in a three person exhibition at Galerie Chacur at
72 Orchard Street in lower Manhattan and in a collective show at the United
States District Court in Washington, DC. A recent review by Gazeta Mercantil
DF of Brasilia states: "Her delicate themes represent images that call
for reflection. Small imprints that draw our curiosity, elongated jungian
figures with a strong psychic presence, a 'ndif' abstraction These paintings
will both surprise and intrigue their viewers. |
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Michael
Biddle is a graduate of Harvard College and the Skowhegan School of Painting
and Sculpture. He maintains a studio in the Mount Airy section of Croton-on-Hudson,
New York where he also lives with his wife, the sculptor Liz Biddle, in
a wonderful 1929 house built by his artist father, George Biddle. He is
a very active practicing artist having participated in exhibitions at The
College of New Rochelle's Castle Gallery, the Silvermine Guild of Artists
in Connecticut, Westchester Council for the Arts Arts Exchange gallery,
and Gallery 128 and 55 Mercer Street gallery, both in New York City. He
is the Chairman of the Fine Arts Department at the Fashion Institute of
Technology and has taught painting, drawing and printmaking throughout his
artistic career. His recent abstract paintings evolved intuitively with
every added layer of oil paint to canvas, subtly and unpredictably encoding
particular shapes that expressively develop a personal language of identity.
These are powerful paintings that ultimately hint at the conflicting feelings
or sensings of chaos and calm. |
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