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 Title: Installation View Date: 1999 Media: oil on canvas Dimensions: Price: contact the gallery for price Fassbender Gallery 312.666.4302 |
 
Fassbender Gallery is pleased to present new paintings by Chicago artist Vera Klement. This recent body of work continues the artist's ongoing concerns of a lifetime: In looking back on fifty years of non-stop painting, I would say that the whole endeavor is an homage to the works of those artists, writers, composers, works without which mine would not exist. And the endeavor serves, in my mind, as a memorial, a marker, for all those who were silenced in totalitarian states and those whose voices rose from that silence. And the silence itself.The silence Klement refers to is often symbolized in her paintings by white resting spaces in a canvas filled with recurring images of her vocabulary: human figures, trees, vessels and doorways. The imagery, in contrast to the pristine background, is created through splattering, staining and manipulation of the paint itself. Reductive and excessive - she avoids closure keeping the paintings poised in an indeterminate state allowing the viewer time to contemplate the tension. Her style becomes a fusion, to borrow a term from music, of means that yet remains in flux. Exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center At the same time as her show at Fassbender Gallery, Vera Klement will be the subject of an important retrospective exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center. Entitled Vera Klement: Paintings 1965-1998, this exhibition will be at the Cultural Center from May 8 through July 18, 1999. 1997 PRESS RELEASE |
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