The Paths You Take and Those You Don't - One Woman Show at the Recitation Gallery, Recitation Hall, University of Delaware, March 19-April 20, 2019

I’m so thrilled to be able to post that I’ve been selected for a one woman showing at Recitation Gallery, in Recitation Hall, on the campus of the University of Delaware.

My show will run from March 19, 2019 - April 12, 2019. I’m not sure yet when my official opening will be but I should know in a few days and will update my post.

If you are in the Newark, Delaware area, please stop by and see my work. I think they look terrific here on my website, but to get the full effect of what I do, seeing it in person is the only way to go.

Plus I have new work that hasn’t been posted here on my website yet. I’m hoping to get some good photos of my work hanging in the gallery with terrific lighting, so stay tuned to see my newest paintings.

I have posted some new photography in my Abstract Photography folder, so check that out. Four new photos in my Car Wash Series.

i will be looking forward to seeing you at the show!

New Work

My new work is the next painting in my "Women Series". These paintings are delving into the hopelessness of women who get caught in circumstances where they have no say...no power. Being a prostitute, a bride in an arranged marriage, or a pin-up girl represent impossible situations that women can find themselves in just to survive.  There isn't any beauty in women finding themselves in these circumstances yet there is beauty here too in the nature of women. 

The third painting in this series is entitled, "Pinned Up Girl - Under the Moon".   I've used silk scarves again in this painting as way to create a three dimensional aspect to the work. The scarves become an aperture for the paint coupled with the various textures and surfaces to create tension and vulnerability to the painting. The juxtaposition of the silk scarves to the thickness of the paint, as well as the very fragile strands of paint, and the textures that go from wild to sandy, gives a sensuality and yet a hardness to the "Pinned Up Girl - Under the Moon".

This new work, "Pinned Up Girl's Boudoir" incorporates the beauty of the boudoir; silk , sensuality and glamor; and then the pink questions that glamor and reduces the image of a woman's bedroom to the color always associated with girls and women "pink is for girls".  The mystery of the pink and red create the tension in this work.  The threads of gold create a fragility in opposition to the bright pink and red which are both so strong.

Welcome to My Studio

Thank you for stopping by my studio.  In my life, I've visited some dark places--the "Vault," because that's where I put things for a very long time.  

I work with and against that darkness in my paintings.  I am pulled toward the sparkle of car paint, how a pearl looks, the hardness and fluidity of metal, the drape of a silk scarf, the brilliance of a jewel. The draw to abstraction is the way I can speak without submitting to the darkness in the real.  

My photography is a little bit different.  It's how I look at the real and find the abstract quality in the here and now.  

As I have more time, I will come back to this blog and talk about individual work.  For now, I am pleased to be able to welcome you to my studio website.  

Feel free to leave me some feedback on any of my work.

Thanks again for stopping by.  Until next time....Denise Eno Ernest