Cheryl
Hazan Contemporary Art is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new paintings
by Madeline Denaro.
This is the
artist's fourth solo exhibition at the gallery. The show, entitled Inner Circles/Outer Worlds, is on view
from October 18 through November 17, 2012.
In her latest work, Denaro invites the viewer to explore and partake in a
fanciful world of both mystery and wonder. Through what seems to be her own
fabricated language, the artist engages us in a visual dialogue that seems to
lure us into some unknown narrative. We journey with her into lands of
introspection, self dramatizing sensation and what one might assume to be
splatters of mixed emotion. Denaro makes great use of layering acrylics and
polymers and very often her intentional or incidental drips are interspersed
with graphic markers adding the needed element that combines both the opacity
and transparency of the work. She paints from a place of process, following
where the work leads her without any idea where that might be. Her work is a
vehicle for making interior life visible, journeying to inner circles while
living in the outer. It is from this world of organic form that Denaro leads
us. As we enter, possibly through curiosity, her language seems to become more
familiar, even recognizable. Somehow she permits us to be free of the need to
associate, to conjure, to know; instead we actually allow the art to have an
action on us – to open to what might be.
Madeline
Denaro was born in the Bronx and currently lives and works in Fort Lauderdale.
Actively exhibiting in the US and abroad, Denaro had a solo show at the Museum
of Art in Fort Lauderdale and had her fifth solo exhibit in Germany in June.
She has been awarded the South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship in 2002
and 2011, the State of Florida Enhancement Grant in 2006 and the Individual
Artist Fellowship in 2012.
Pryor Fine Art, Under the Surface
2011 Cultural Consortium Fellowship