ZELENE SCHLOSBERG
Zelene Schlosberg. Article on Art Market Magazine. The GOLD LIST Special Edition #4. Top Contemporary Artists of Today!
Zelene Schlosberg is a visual artist concerned with the aesthetics of fragility and the meditative power of imagery. Her art mingles Western and Eastern elements, including allusions to Chinese calligraphy and a special fondness for contemporary classical music. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally, and will be one of the featured artists at the CICA Museum (South Korea), in an exhibition to be held in May 2019.
Her work has also gained
a foothold in the new music community. She was the solo featured visual artist in CHICAGO: An Artist Celebration (2015), curated by the Chicago Arts Orchestra, and the Grammy- nominated Spektral Quartet chose a painting of hers for a musical improvisation in 2018. Her painting “Directions #0” was featured on the cover of composer John Liberatore’s 2018 debut album, “Line Drawings” (Albany Records).
Zelene Schlosberg. Article on Art Market Magazine. The GOLD LIST Special Edition #4. Top Contemporary Artists of Today!
“There is something uncanny about water in motion, its ability to convey succinctly and profoundly the passage of time. I am not the first to notice this of course. Here is Heraclitus: “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” Confucius had an opinion, too.
Zelene Schlosberg. Impromptu. Acrylic, Thread, Canvas Piece and Nails on Wood Panels. 20x41x4 cm. 2019
My work dangles precipitously between painting and sculpture, bringing the viewer the silent but palpable experience of being between forms, with attention to line and architecture always present.
Zelene Schlosberg. Filter. Thread and Canvas Pieces on Two Manipulated Canvases, 30x29x6.3 cm. 2019
The extended techniques I employ include cutting, wrapping, stitching and crocheting. Holes in panels, pieces of rice paper, simple nails, dangling stones and the canvas itself are time-honored techniques and materials that function not ornamentally but rather centrally in addressing issues of objecthood, of transience, as well as the powerful aesthetics of fragility. It is not an accident that these very themes, not to mention the materials themselves, are essential to certain streams of Eastern philosophy.
The latest pieces, all of which are mixed media and in black and white, affirm a preoccupation with these subjects, suggesting an elemental aesthetic, both modern and timeless. Also at work is the idea of canvas as corporeal presence, and here the small scale contributes to a sense of physical intimacy and immediacy.”
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Zelene Schlosberg. River Noir # 5. Acrylic on Canvas. Two Panels. 2.5 cm distance between the panels. 51×48 x2 cm. 2018
