Art Shows
"A Slice of Art" by Basha Maryanska
Spring brings life to the natural beauty of our landscape and to the gallery-like walls of LaBella Bistro, 194 Main Street, New Paltz. "A Slice of Art", a show of landscape paintings by Basha Maryanska, is a fresh new view of this internationally acclaimed artists love of nature and the beauty around us. Her unabashed emotions are clearly expressed with luscious rich layers of paint and deep glazes, creating vibrating color and dramatic light. Just as residents of this beautiful valley are responding to the awakening colors of our landscape, they will respond to Basha shareing her delight with the mood swings of land and sea powerfully expressed on her canvases.
Ms. Maryanska's art has been appreciated and purchased by a growing number of private collectors and museums around the world since she obtained her MFA at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, Poland in 1979. When she came to visit New Paltz and LaBella Bistro she was charmed by the welcoming atmosphere and the simple, prominent art display space. Basha believes Art must be seen, not just in museums and galleries where it is set apart from ordinary life, but also in the places where people from all walks of life gather. However, her work has been exhibited in more formal settings. The artworks of Basha Maryanska are found at the Permanent Collection of Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; the National Museum of Gdansk, Poland, and in many private collections in Warsaw, Krakow, and Gdansk in Poland; Paris, Grenoble, Aix-en Provence, Limoges and Montpelier in France: Munich, Berlin and Metz in Germany,; Amsterdam and Hilversum in Holland; London in the UK, Stockholm and Umea in Sweden; Vilnus in Lithuania; Prague in the Czech Republic; Montreal and Torontoin Canada; Tokyo and Osaka in Japan; Mexico City in Mexico. In the USA she has exhibited in Washington DC; Chicago, IL; Bloomington, IN; Boston, MA; and New York City, Brooklyn and Queens, Beacon, Kingston and now, New Paltz, NY, Ms. Maryanska says she derives her abstract landscapes, "from memory, imagination, feelings and emotions, sketches, occasionally life and various travels." She explains, "Although my images sometimes appear to be abstract, they are all clearly recognizable as landscape and the portrait of the nature. I actually use landscape motifs to paint my feelings and emotions." She paints every day. As the colors meet and the texture develops, emotions swirl into the canvas exposing the vastness of natures diversity, power and beauty. She has felt it intensely and can not at first part with her painting. But she says, "Art has it's own life and showing Art makes sense of it." Paintings accumulate and each, as though with a life of it's own, travels to various exhibits. Some of the work exhibited at LaBella will have just returned from Stuttgart, Germany where she represented Galeria SD Mokotow of Warsaw. After LaBella they will go to to Manhattan for an October 16 opening at New Century Artist Inc. Concurrently with the New Paltz Exhibit is "The World of Artists" an exhibit of the International Women Artists, which Ms. Maryanska is curating. It opens 2 PM Saturday May 1 at the Howland Cultural Center in Beacon, NY. Although Ms. Maryanska exhibits and creates exhibits around the world, Basha is also happy to have her work seen in New Paltz at the small corner restaurant, LaBella. She feels that, "A Slice of Art", viewed with a slice of Maria's delicious pizza, and perhaps a glass of wine, offers the feeling that art, like a beautiful spring day, should be noticed and enjoyed everywhere and is meant for everyone. Galeria SD Mokotow
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