Current Exhibition EA Gallery running through August 12, 2009

2. IS PLEASED TO PRESENT

6. FEATURED ARTISTS
DEBORAH BROWN
LAUREL GARCIA
COLVIN
JENNY WUNDERLY
JENNY WUNDERLY

8. Howl, 2007 oil on canvas, 48” x 60 “
Deborah Brown

9. “I am interested in how we interact with the natural world. My work
depicts ambiguous encounters between animals and humans that
result from the collision
of the natural world with our technological conquest of it. The
paintings are humorous and ironic and are intended to provoke and
disturb.”
Bird in a Bush, 2007 oil on canvas, 48” x 48” Bayonne, 2007 oil on canvas, 48” x 48”

11. “Contemporary events
provide the tableau for
specific animal encounters I
imagine. I get my ideas from
firsthand experience and the
media. I collect images of
ecological subjects from
newspapers, books,
magazines, and my own
experience and place them Deborah Brown, “East River”, 2007 oil on canvas, 18” x 24”
in contexts that I think are
provocative and poignant.
The larger context for my
paintings is the
increasingly small space
into which the world’s
creatures have been forced
by our expanding
dominion over the earth
and its habitats.”
Deborah Brown, “Gowanus”, 2007 oil on canvas, 18” x 24”

13. “I see myself in the tradition of American landscape painting. My work references
Frederic Remington and Winslow Homer in particular. From my contemporary vantage
point, I like using the vocabulary of late 19th and early 20th century painting
----with its flat, sensuous paint application--- to tell a disturbing story.”
Deborah Brown, “Landing”, 2008 oil on canvas, 40” x 60”

15. Deborah Brown received her BA from Yale University and her MFA from Indiana University.
She has exhibited widely in the US in both galleries and museums including the National
Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC and most recently the Heckscher Museum in
Huntington, NY. Her works are included in a number of permanent museum collections in
addition to many public and private collections. Selected public installations include the
Metropolitan Transit Authorityʼs Houston Street Subway Station in Manhattan, and she is
currently working on a mosaic mural for an animal shelter in Memphis, TN, commissioned by
UrbanArt Commission. Deborah resides in Manhattan and keeps her studio in the Bushwick
section of Brooklyn.

17. Laurel
Garcia
Colvin
“The Enchantment
Series”
Laurel Garcia Colvin, Into The Woods, 2008 acrylic on wood, 60” x 36”

19. Laurel Garcia Colvin
studies the narrative
and symbolic aspects of
images taken from her
childhood memories in
this most recent body
of work wherein
silhouetted figures of
children explore nature
lit by moonlight.
Laurel Garcia Colvin, Beyond The Garden Gate, 2008 acrylic on wood, 60” x 36”

21. The fairy tale
environment invokes a
“sense of wonder and
pleasure seeking in this
private, moonlit world- a
journey of insight and
discovery that reflects
the inner landscape of
childhood,” writes
independent curator
Dede Young
Laurel Garcia Colvin, Along The Water’s Edge, 2009 acrylic on wood, 60” x 36

23. “Though we may respond to images
of a child alone in a strange,
dreamlike world with danger and
anxiety, we adults have learned how
things are; we are doubtful, fearful,
and cautious. Garcia Colvin’s images
captivate us. They generate the
desire to be in/to return to a place of
childlike wonder and discovery, to
literally shed layer, to unlearn and
be completely open to the world, to be
freshly in the moment of creativity
with an undaunted appetite for new
experiences.”
Laurel Garcia Colvin, Among The Ferns, 2009 acrylic on wood, 60” x 36”

25. Laurel Garcia Colvin’s artwork has been
exhibited in several New York City
galleries and galleries in Barcelona, Spain,
Dublin, Ireland, Chicago, Texas, New
York, Connecticut and New Jersey. Her
works are in private collections in
England, Ireland, Brazil, New York,
California, Connecticut, Washington D.C.,
Pennsylvania, Florida, Illinois and Texas.
She received her MFA and BFA from
the University of Texas at Austin, and
did post-graduate studies at Pratt
Institute. Ms. Garcia Colvin was on the
art faculty in the Art Department of the
University of Texas in Austin for many
years before moving to New York City in
1986. She is a member of the non-profit
Ceres Gallery in the Chelsea section of
New York City. Her studio is located in
Armonk, New York.

27. Jenny Wunderly
Jenny Wunderly, Holding True, 2009 mixed media on canvas, 30” x 64”

28. Jenny Wunderly, Lover of What Is, 2008 mixed media on canvas, 48” x 48” Jenny Wunderly, No Beginning & No End, 2008 mixed media on canvas, 48” x 48”
“Beauty that touches the heart is created by juxtaposing opposite qualities.
When formed and unformed elements are part of a finished painting, the beauty
of a blossoming flower intensifies, standing out with greater depth and strength
than if seen by itself.”

30. “My paintings have multiple layers. Like life itself, they begin with dripping and
chaotic unprocessed gestures. With each subsequent layer, the image becomes more
formed, until there is an intimate balance between unfinished and finished, the murky
and chaotic alongside the fully realized image.”
Jenny Wunderly, Magnolia I, 2009 mixed media on canvas, 48” x 48 Jenny Wunderly, Magnolia II, 2009 mixed media on canvas, 48” x 48

32. “Inspiration for my work comes
from my intimate surroundings,
always looking for opportunities to
photograph my children and their
friends in my flower garden. One
day when I was looking through
the view finder I discovered if I
took a picture of a flower up close
while at the same time focusing on
children in the background, I
ended up with an altered size
relationship between the flowers
and the children. Now the
children were moving through a
world with flowers larger than
life, which symbolically I see as a
parallel to how a child-like mind
experiences its environment when
fully open.”
Jenny Wunderly, At the Right Time, 2008 mixed media on canvas, 72” x 60”

34. “My paintings draw on the elementary emotional cords that connect us, making it not
only accessible to art
connoisseurs, but also to
families and children. It does
not require previous knowledge
of art, and yet uses
sophisticated techniques.
Viewers are intrigued by the
mixed media in my work, its
multiple layers, and strong
sense of composition. They are
attracted by the vitality of its
raw and unfinished surfaces,
juxtaposed with naturalistic
oversized flowers and delicate
outlines of children.” Jenny Wunderly, No Higher or Lower Place, 2008 mixed media on canvas, 54” x 54”

36. Geranium, 2007 mixed media on canvas, 10” x 10” Can You Hear It?, 2009 mixed media on canvas, Diptych, 12” x 18”
“This meeting of opposites- the murky and raw next
to delicately rendered flowers--creates a tension
that draws the viewer in. These elements reflect life
as we all experience it, in that every day is filled
with difficulty & beauty, the formed & the yet-to-
be formed, in constant process & blossoming. Like
the lotus blossom with its roots in the mud, my work
conveys a sense that uncertainty & growth enhance
each other, creating beauty.”
Pear Blossoms I, 2009 mixed media on canvas, 10” x 10”

38. Jenny Wunderly grew up in Switzerland on the shore of Lake
Zürich. Her interest in art drew her to New York City at age 20,
when she decided to move to the United States.
After completing a degree in graphic design at California
College of Arts, Wunderly worked as a graphic designer at
Primo Angeli Inc in San Francisco for four years, and began
painting full time in 1994.
Since 2003 Wunderly has lived with her husband and two sons
in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Northern
California.

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