Fairfield, CT - The public is invited to a reception on Jan. 9 at Art/Place Gallery to honor and remember the late Barbara Bernstein with a show of many of her paintings.
Barbara was an original and founding member of Art Place Gallery. She participated in more than 200 group and national juried shows, including Salmagundi, Allied Artists of America, and Art of the Northeast. She won forty awards in addition to the Grumbacher Gold Medallion for outstanding achievement in oil painting and was a juried artist member of the CT Watercolor Society, CT Women Artists, and the New Haven Paint and Clay. Her works are in many many private and public collections, including General Electric Corp., the town of Westport, CT and the Connecticut National Bank, among others.
Barbara said, "My work is representational and draws upon the traditional range of subject matter; landscape, interiors, still lifes, and figures. There is an interplay in my work of the abstract and the objective. The high key of the color coupled with painterly strokes gives my work a strong expressive bent.
My dominant themes concern the inner serenity and restorative power of nature, and the celebration of the familiar. I place an emphasis on the relationships of colors and shapes, especially mindful of their rhythms and interactions."
Art/Place Gallery shares space with Fairfield Theater Company and is located at 70 Sanford Street, Fairfield, CT. The show can be seen from 12-5 pm every day through Jan. 30, 2022. Call 646-258-6912.