Escape & Balance with Samantha French and Jessica Pisano at Sirona Fine Art

A spectacular dual exhibition opens at Sirona Fine Art on Friday, April 1st featuring Jessica Pisano’s solo exhibition Balance and Samantha French’s solo exhibition Escape. The opening reception starts at 7pm showcasing two distinct artists with two shows in one.

Jessica Pisano’s poetic, meditative paintings were inspired by her childhood in the rolling hills, pristine shorelines and the co-existent wildlife of Martha’s Vineyard. Pisano’s oils feature isolated, majestic presentations of trees and the ocean as well as delicate, fragile depictions of birds in flight. Loose, expressionistic backgrounds are anchored by carefully rendered images of nature, creating a beautiful balance of classical and modernistic styles.

Pisano incorporates backgrounds that are expressionistic, about the surface and movement of the paint medium, intermixed with gold leaf. She incorporates another reality on top of this, the painted reality of traditional methods of color and form. It is a harmonic marriage of classic and contemporary modes of painting. The backgrounds have immediacy and energy of the artist’s hand while the middle of the paintings have focus, quiet and strength.

Samantha French’s poolscapes shimmer and vibrate with patterned segments of intense color and barely paused floating movement. It achieves this through a neat combination of being absolutely real to the eye while being a very obvious quilt of pigmented canvas. French manages to convey playfulness and the eternal buoyant freedom of summer, the cool loosening from the heavy world around of us of heat and gravity into a floating dream. The work is accomplished and joyful.

French’s current body of work explores the idea of escape, the tranquility and nostalgia for the lazy summer days of her childhood. The series is inspired by Samantha’s own reflections and memories of her childhood summers spent in the lakes of Northern Minnesota.

Pisano and French present two different dynamics in painting style, color and emotions. What they both accomplish is a celebration of the world around us, the simple and achievable beauties in nature and experience, whether it be a personal, subjective view of the energy contained in a simple isolated tree or the memory of diving into an average but glorious body of water.

 

Samantha French and Jessica Pisano will open on April 1st at 7pm and will be an ongoing exhibit. Printed catalogs are available through the gallery. Sirona Fine Art is located in The Village at Gulfstream Park 600 Silks Run #1240 in Hallandale Beach, Florida 33009. Kindly RSVP to info@sironafineart.com