Designer Series – Picking Up On Natural Environment
Brooklyn From July 1, 2019 to July 7, 2019
If the natural surrounding environment is cool and calm and, as with perhaps a vacation rental, maintaining an air of nighttime romance is desired, using blues and greens and themes of the moon can work wonders. Wendy Chazin’s Interior, Still Life is a signed 1975 stone lithograph that promotes a homey feeling of peacefulness. Jim Buckels’s Bel Air Blues and Gerard Razzia’s Clandestine are dramatic and chic signed silkscreens that both lend dreaminess, austerity and mystery.
The windows allow for plants and landscape to come into the interior, which in turn become the first characters to dictate the mood. Choosing artwork that keeps up a conversation with the local flora residents can be an excellent vehicle to encourage the positive flow that they have created. P.S. Gordon’s Untitled has the right colors and themes, and Robert Zakanitch’s Avery Fisher Hall would easily blanket any wall with complimentary movement. And Bill Komoski’s Community Holiday Festival seems an easy pairing with what could be dancing sunlight dappling through leaves of trees or chandelier prisms.
If the space has interesting modern architectural details or design features, then playing off those angles and shapes can bring an affirming gesture, reinforcing the existing tone. Marko Spalatin’s Untitled looks already like mid-century modern geometry, and Mel Bochner’s Twenty-Five Years begs to be placed near a see-through open staircase. A vertically enlightened loft-style space could require an equally as visionary piece of artwork, as is the case with one like Budget Enterprise by Olga Koumoundouros. And Notre Dame, Montreal by Roger Cartier could pick up on both classic renaissance moulding and a spirit of romantic tradition.
To accentuate an ambiance of warmth and sunset glamour, choosing pieces with warm colors and summery themes fits the bill. Roland Ricardson’s Interior View holds all the perfect undertones and Rolf Rafflewski’s Hotel de Ville is reminiscent of twenties nostalgia of travel and fine weather bliss. Even if the weather is always changing, Howard Hodgkin’s The Sky's The Limit offers an abstract sunset that fosters a mood of cocktails by the sea no matter what time of year, and the desired warmth can make its home within yours.
And if waltzing with floor or wall tiles, textures or patterns strikes a fancy, then selecting art that employs those details can be a winning pairing. Tin Roof (2nd State) by James Rosenquist would make a thrilling companion to old fashioned malt shop tiling, and Katherine Porter’s Untitled (Newport Jazz Festival) would converse readily with exposed brick walls, whether inside or outside.
Terry Winters’s Location Plan 2000 indulges an affinity toward all of what makes eye candy of natural wood and marble patterning. And to pick up on the textures found in stone finishes or perhaps rocky garden or exterior settings that may already be in play, works like Jennifer Bartlett’s House, Dots, Hatches or Olin Stephens’s Dorade: Sail Plan, 1936 could provide illuminated insight.
-
135 Plymouth Street
11201, Brooklyn
Suite 412
United States
Details
Wendy Chazin
United States
Exhibitions in Brooklyn
Mazlish Gallery
Mazlish Gallery Presents - Welcome Spring! Featuring artists John Mazlish, Andrew Cotton & Francine Tint
From April 7, 2021 to April 13, 2021
Mazlish Gallery
Beautiful Warriors
From March 22, 2021 to March 28, 2021
Mazlish Gallery
Emergence: Featuring artists Paddy Cohn & John Mazlish
From March 24, 2021 to March 28, 2021
Mazlish Gallery
Mazlish Gallery Winter Exhibition: RENEWAL Feb 10th-16th
From February 14, 2021 to February 14, 2021
ArtWise
Flowers In Spring
From May 1, 2019 to May 10, 2019
ArtWise
Designer Series — Elegance in Tranquil Spaces
From May 1, 2019 to May 19, 2019
ArtWise
Designer Series – Accent Color for Definition
From June 1, 2019 to June 11, 2019
ArtWise
Designer Series — Superstars for High Impact
From June 1, 2019 to June 17, 2019
ArtWise
Designer Series – Abstracts To Compliment
From May 31, 2019 to June 23, 2019
ArtWise
Words, Lettering & Poetry
From June 1, 2019 to June 30, 2019