{"id":2957,"date":"2021-04-22T18:22:06","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T18:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/?p=2957"},"modified":"2021-05-11T18:27:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T18:27:05","slug":"women-of-culture-at-three-abstract-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/?p=2957","title":{"rendered":"Women of Culture at Three Abstract Artists"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Private Gallery Night:\u00a0<i>Three Abstract Artists<\/i>\u00a0at Susan Eley Fine Art<\/h3>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Join the\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Women<\/span>\u00a0of\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Culture<\/span>\u00a0community in celebration of the\u00a0<span class=\"il\">women<\/span>\u00a0of abstract art during a private exhibition viewing and artist talk at Susan Eley Fine Art on Thursday April 22nd.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<i>Three Abstract Artists<\/i>\u00a0exhibit features paintings by Jane Ehrlich, Margaret Fitzgerald and A\u2019Driane Nieves whose work reflects both the distress and pain, as well as the small victories and joys, of the past year of the pandemic. Each painting is extremely personal and reflects the unseen and the unpaintable, functioning as its own self-portrait.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2959\" src=\"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2021-Abstract-Install-10-400x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2021-Abstract-Install-10-400x300.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2021-Abstract-Install-10-227x170.jpeg 227w, https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2021-Abstract-Install-10-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2021-Abstract-Install-10-1024x768.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><br \/>\nThese three\u00a0<span class=\"il\">women<\/span>\u00a0follow in the tradition of the Abstract Expressionists of the 1940s, who painted deeply emotional work in response to the chaos and tragedies of their time. While many associate the origins of abstraction with men like Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Robert Motherwell, the female abstract artists of the period \u2014 Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, Helen Frankenthaler and others \u2014 were just as important in revolutionizing modern art in postwar America.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2957 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/?attachment_id=2962'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"227\" height=\"170\" src=\"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2021-Abstract-Install-15-227x170.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2021-Abstract-Install-15-227x170.jpeg 227w, https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2021-Abstract-Install-15-400x300.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2021-Abstract-Install-15-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2021-Abstract-Install-15-1024x768.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/?attachment_id=2961'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"227\" height=\"170\" src=\"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2021-Abstract-Install-14-227x170.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2021-Abstract-Install-14-227x170.jpeg 227w, https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2021-Abstract-Install-14-400x300.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2021-Abstract-Install-14-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2021-Abstract-Install-14-1024x768.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\nIn advance of our book club discussion of Ninth Street\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Women<\/span>\u00a0(the definitive source on the\u00a0<span class=\"il\">women<\/span>\u00a0of the Abstract Expressionist movement), this will be a great opportunity to learn how the traditions of the AbEx movement have been passed down to, and reinterpreted by, today\u2019s contemporary female artists.<\/p>\n<p>We will have a private viewing of the exhibit, accompanied by wine and snacks, and two of the artists will be zoom-ing in (from Philly &amp; New Mexico) to discuss their work. Plus plenty of time to network with fellow art-full\u00a0<span class=\"il\">women<\/span>!<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo ajU\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Private Gallery Night:\u00a0Three Abstract Artists\u00a0at Susan Eley Fine Art Join the\u00a0Women\u00a0of\u00a0Culture\u00a0community in celebration of the\u00a0women\u00a0of abstract art during a private exhibition viewing and artist talk at Susan Eley Fine Art on Thursday April 22nd. The\u00a0Three Abstract Artists\u00a0exhibit features paintings by Jane Ehrlich, Margaret Fitzgerald and A\u2019Driane Nieves whose work reflects both the distress and pain, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2963,"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2957\/revisions\/2963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}