BEYOND

July 27 — August 30

Andra Norris Gallery is proud to present “Beyond,” a collection of new paintings and photography from four dynamic California artists: Stephen Henriques, Ryan Reynolds, Russel Kiehn and Elena Zolotnitsky.

Stephen Henriques

Stephen Henriques’ large-scale oil paintings are grounded in abstraction and nuanced with the lush color and thick impasto paint for which he is celebrated. These works are inspired by California coastal light, as well as the American avant-garde jazz innovations of the 1960s.

Ryan Reynolds

Ryan Reynolds continues his explorations of Northern and Central California beaches. His “beachcomber” and “pier” paintings blend abstraction with representation and utilize loose brushwork, balanced colors, and a cubist order. A professional artist and professor of art at Santa Clara University, Reynolds’ paintings express his love of nature and the California coast.

*Elena Zolotnitsk & Russel Kiehn

During a retreat at Château Orquevaux, the artist’s and writer’s residency in northeastern France, Zolotnitsky and Kiehn, who are married, created individual bodies of work inspired by their time there — spent separately. In this exhibition, we are delighted to present new works from d’Orquevaux and “beyond.”

Elena Zolotnitsky

Zolotnitsky’s autobiographical and narrowly defined repertoire reveals her intention to look inward and deeply. Fine-tuning a balance with her tender artistic compositions, she meditates on her favorite interior object,the chair, with its myriad possible transformations. She seeks the essence of a thing that may be still while also vibrating with movement or meaning, like an anonymous face that conveys life’s mysteries, or a flower that is temporal but can also reflect infinity.

Russel Kiehn

Still life photographer Russel Kiehn’s interests lie in images that are in plain sight yet are often overlooked. He seeks a dialogue between a subject and the photographic medium; between a captured image and the process that produces a satisfactory result. His photographs are created intuitively using an in-camera multiple exposure technique that layers one image on another. The resulting photographs convey a textural and mysterious narrative of the “feeling” that he experienced in the place of origin.

For more information, please contact Andra Norris.

ANDRA NORRIS GALLERY

311 Lorton Avenue

Burlingame, CA 94010

gallery: 650 235 9775

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