November 12 – December 23
North Reading, MA — Inner Space Fine Arts presents Land/Water, a two-person exhibit featuring artists Karen Krieger and Elise Freda. Both abstract artists have a sensitivity towards nature and use it as a jumping-off point in their work. Krieger uses her own combination of painting media, including natural pigments, graphite, and acrylic, along with Chinese ink on xuan paper, allowing it to flow and transform, creating imaginary landscapes of mountains, land, water, and sky.
Freda uses mixed mediums – acrylic, gouache, egg tempera – to form images that evoke oceans, rivers, lakes, mountains, and fields. Krieger and Freda are process-oriented artists, letting the inherent alchemy of their mediums participate in the evolution of their images. In the studio, Krieger and Freda act and react, letting all the additions and subtractions along the way become part of the final image that emerges. Both artists share an affinity to an eastern sensibility, embracing the quality of immediacy to make timeless, universal, and meditative spaces.
Krieger states, “I explore the simplicity of empty spaces, the essence of a mountain, the flow of water, and the movement of mist. I’m after an interior vision of landscape, using a non-representational approach to elicit a feeling instead of replicating a specific scene in nature.” Krieger’s work has been featured in exhibitions in the US and UK, and her paintings are in numerous private collections. She paints out of her studio in Needham, MA, at Gorse Mill Studios.
Freda says, “I use the process of painting to evoke and celebrate the natural world: mists rising over fields, changing contrasts of light and weather, and the infinite depths of water and sky. I relish the mystery of abstraction, how the unknown eventually evolves into the known.” Freda has shown her work throughout the US and has been reviewed in The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, and The Wall Street Journal. Her studio is based in the Catskills, NY.
Inner Space Fine Arts is located at 189 Main Street, in the iconic octagonal building, in North Reading, MA. Land/Water will open with a public reception on November 12, from 5—7pm, and will be on exhibit through December 23.
