Lauren Powell Presents:
~ Keren Anavy ~
Seasonal Mylar: Four Transparent Seasons and One Floating Heart in the Depths of 2020
As the winter solstice begins and 2020 comes to an end, I am thrilled to present my 20th and final works on paper sale of the year - a seasonal series of brilliant abstract paintings on transparent Mylar created with ink and colored pencils by multimedia artist Keren Anavy. The paintings correspond to the changing colors and forms of each season experienced in both her new and old homes of New York City and Israel. They include all aspects of each periodic shift: plants, atmosphere, feelings, and even personal memories and emotions experienced. Through her materials and her luscious use of color, Keren recreates her perception of nature, the transient and temporal characteristics of our existence, providing hope and optimism for the year to come. Multiple layers of fluid compositions, spread via injection independent of the human hand, result in patterns both unimagined and unplanned. This unpredictable nature of the ink mimics our existence in this wild year. I could stare at the dynamic colors all day, shifting as the light passes, ever changing like the seasons.
"I hope that during these troubling times, my paintings become hopeful meditations on the seasons as a symbol of our connection to nature and its place in our life. I'm trying to grasp these fragments of lights and nature before they slip away…" - K.A.
Learn more about Keren’s work here: http://www.kerenanavy.com/.
Keren Anavy is a New York based Multimedia visual artist working in drawing, painting, installation and performance whose interdisciplinary process and research-based practice scrutinizes issues of the dynamic relationships between nature, culture and sites. Born in Israel and moved to New York in late 2015, Anavy received her MFA from Haifa University, Israel, and her BA in Art History from Tel Aviv University, Israel. She has been a college level educator for over 10 years, often working closely with the community, and is Artistic Director New York at Radio28, an international cultural exchange program located in Mexico City.
Anavy was selected to be Artist in Residence in 2021 at Guild Hall of East Hampton, New York and Marble House Project, Dorset, Vermont. She has exhibited widely in solo and two person exhibitions including solo exhibitions at the Sunroom Project-Space, Wave Hill, Bronx, New York. The Janco-Dada Museum, Ein Hod, Haifa Museum of Art, both in Israel. Her interdisciplinary performances showed at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, New York, Danspace Project, St. Mark's Church, New York City and at the Queens Museum, New York among many other venues. Anavy is a recipient of the Asylum Arts, New York Grant (2017-18). Residencies include Wassaic Project, Wassaic, New York (2019), The Studios at MASS MoCA, Massachusetts (2019), AIRIE Everglades, National Park, Florida (2018), The New York Art Residency and Studios (NARS) Foundation (2015-16) among others.
Winter (#1-9), 2020
10” x 7” | Ink and colored pencils on transparent Mylar
Winter (#1), 2020
10” x 7” | Ink and colored pencils on transparent Mylar
Winter (#2), 2020
10” x 7” | Ink and colored pencils on transparent Mylar
Winter (#3), 2020
10” x 7” | Ink and colored pencils on transparent Mylar
Winter (#4), 2020
10” x 7” | Ink and colored pencils on transparent Mylar
Winter (#5), 2020
10” x 7” | Ink and colored pencils on transparent Mylar
Winter (#6), 2020
10” x 7” | Ink and colored pencils on transparent Mylar
Winter (#7), 2020
10” x 7” | Ink and colored pencils on transparent Mylar
Winter (#8), 2020
10” x 7” | Ink and colored pencils on transparent Mylar
Winter (#9), 2020
10” x 7” | Ink and colored pencils on transparent Mylar
Spring (#1-3), 2020
varying sizes | Ink and colored pencils on transparent Mylar
Spring (#1), 2020
49” x 12” | Ink and colored pencils on transparent Mylar
Spring (#2), 2020
48” x 11.5” | Ink and colored pencils on transparent Mylar
Spring (#3), 2020
49” x 12” | Ink and colored pencils on transparent Mylar
Summer, 2020
36” x 24” | Ink and colored pencils on transparent Mylar
Autumn (#1), 2020
26” x 48” | Ink and colored pencils on transparent Mylar
Autumn (#2), 2020
16” x 12.5” | Ink and colored pencils on transparent Mylar
Autumn (#3), 2020
18.5” x 12.5” | Ink and colored pencils on transparent Mylar
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