Nylen Galley at Picture This is pleased to present recent works by Kerri Rosenthal and Jocelyn Braxton Armstrong. Meet the artists at an opening reception on June 13th, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. The show will run until July 3rd.
Happy flowers and beautiful pastel colors fill Kerri Rosenthal's paintings on canvas. They are fun and light yet informed by sophisticated abstraction. In perfect compliment to the two dimensional images are Jocelyn Braxton Armstrong's ceramics. White porcelain wings take flight in celebration of Spring and celadon hues vessels reflect the promise of summer. "Kerri and Jocelyn share a fresh, clean and contemporary aesthetic. Having these pieces in the gallery feels like I just threw open the windows" says owner Wendy Nylen.
About Kerri Rosenthal
The Modern Works on Canvas series from Kerri Rosenthal stem directly from the influences of her prior professional life and her formal education. As the styles of fashion impacted her retail and wholesale clothing career, the palette of colors from décor and fashion inform her paintings.
After graduating from the NYU School of Fashion and Communications, Kerri spent 10 years working for Oilily, a Dutch company based in Amsterdam. As Kerri spent extensive time in Holland both working for Oilily and as President of Oilily's US subsidiary Cakewalk, she was affected by the sights, feel and colors of the Netherlands and Northern Europe.
Kerri has many influences though she has a special appreciation for the works of Wolf Kahn and his America series, Helen Frankenthaler , Joan Mitchell, Lee Krazner and Willem de Kooning.
Kerri's works today are inspired by her amplified interpretation of the colors she experiences on her daily travels passing through the vistas of the Saugatuck Valley as well as the beach areas of Long Island Sound. Her works continue to be strongly influenced by her fashion aesthetic and close study of contemporary furnishings with an emphasis on modern European designs.
Kerri's works have been featured in the following magazines:
Luxe Magazine, June 2012 (Feature Spread)
Traditional Home Magazine, October 2012 (Feature Spread)
New England Home Magazine, 3 issues in 2012
The June 2012 issue of Luxe magazine included an editorial featuring Kerri's works. Her paintings were also recently highlighted in a four page spread in Traditional Home magazine.
About Jocelyn Braxton Armstrong
Jocelyn Braxton Armstrong is a ceramic artist whose sculptures have a fresh sophistication and modern aesthetic that link fine art with craft. Before devoting herself full-time to ceramics in 2001, Ms. Armstrong spent nearly 20 years as a freelance fashion stylist/editor in Manhattan. Since then, she has developed a signature technique of building black and white porcelain ceramic sculptures to look delicately stitched together.
Ms. Armstrong's talent has been recognized and her work critically acclaimed. She received an Artist Fellowship Grant from the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism in 2008, and was granted prestigious Emerging Artist Awards from American Style Magazine in 2008, Ceramics Monthly in 2007, and The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in 2005. She won the First Prize in Sculpture in 2008 and 2006 during the "Annual Art of the Northeast USA Exhibition" at the Silvermine Guild Arts Center (New Canaan, CT) and at the "Bruce Museum Arts Festival" in 2013 (Greenwich,CT).
Her porcelain sculptures have been exhibited regionally and nationally at venues including Fuller Craft Museum (Brockton, MA), San Angelo Museum of Art (San Angelo, TX), Peninsula Museum of Art (Belmont, CA), Lincoln Arts & Cultural Foundation (Lincoln, CA), Mesa Contemporary Arts (Mesa, AZ), Wayne Art Center (Wayne, PA), Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center (Dowell, MD), Sherrie Galerie (Columbus, OH), BWAC Gallery (Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY), Phoenix Gallery (NYC)Visual Arts Center of New Jersey (Summit, NJ), Fairfield Arts Council (Fairfield, CT), Westport Arts Center (Westport, CT) and The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (Ridgfield, CT). Her work is included in Brooklyn Museum's Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art: Feminist Art Base (Brooklyn, NY).
Ms. Armstrong holds a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art. She is a juried member of the Silvermine Guild of Artists (New Canaan, CT). She currently lives in Westport and maintains a studio in Bridgeport, CT.
Nylen Gallery at Picture This, 606 Post Road East in Westport is open Monday through Friday, 10:00 am to 5:30 pm and Saturday's 10:00 am to 5 pm.
For more information, call Wendy Nylen at 203-227-6861.