Jaanika Peerna Exhibition and Live Drawing/Dance Performance at New York Estonian House
EXHIBITION of DRAWINGS
11 April 2011 – 1 May 2012
New York Estonian House
243 East 34th Street
New York, NY 10016
Opening Reception April 11 6-8PM
7PM live drawing and dance performance with dancer Jane Thornquist
Documentation of the live drawing and dance performance is here
Otherwise open by appointment only:
Contact Katrin Albaz 212 684 0336 or e-mail:info@estonianhousenewyork.com
This exhibition, entitled "Wind and Light", is part of NY Estonian Cultural Days programming and features dynamic drawings of forces in nature. The drawings are wax pigment and graphite on mylar, ranging from intimate, 5 x 5 inch squares to larger, more ambitious expressions measuring up tothree feet on a side. Regardless of scale, the group of drawings, identified by the titles: Air Dance Series and Maelstrom Series, are a response to the motions of air and wind. An economy of line spontaneously, yet assuredly, echoes the swirling, energized forces of nature. Peerna writes of these works that they are “mappings of air movement in nature registered by my senses. They chart quiet and tender breezes but also storms that have the power to destroy. There is beauty in the extremes as well as a hint of anxiety. The works are very immediate responses to sensory data and also reverberate on a bigger theme of changes in climate.” Their simplicity of black on white combined with an intense energy yields a rare profundity and beauty.
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