Thursday, January 29, 2009

Imagined Horizons

Horizon 8, Susan Barton, Acrylic and Ink, 3.5 x 2.5", Available for purchase



Horizon 7, Susan Barton, Acrylic and Ink, 3.5 x 2.5", Available for purchase.











Horizon 6, Susan Barton, Acrylic and Ink, 3.5 x 2.5", Available for purchase




Horizon 5, Susan Barton, Acrylic and Ink, 3.5 x 2.5", Available for purchase.











Horizon 4, Susan Barton, Acrylic and Ink, 3.5 x 2.5", Available for purchase


The "Imagined Horizon" Series, contemporary abstract miniature paintings are available for purchase at Avram Eisen Gallery, 5204 North Damen, Chicago, or through inquires via phone 773.307-0273, or www.avrameisengallery.com

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

New Works At Avram Eisen Gallery

Viewing a city in the warm glow of days end...
Attaining focus through veiled layers of fog...
Visualizing the radiance over the earth...

These are the inspirations of Susan Barton's new alternative landscape paintings, "Imagined Horizons".



Top Left: Horizon 2 , Susan Barton, Acrylic and Ink 3.5 x2.5", Available for purchase, Right: Horizon, Susan Barton, Acrylic and Ink, 3.5x2.5", Available for purchase, Bottom Left: Horizon 3, Susan Barton, Acrylic and Ink, 3.5x2.5", Available for purchase.











These among other miniatures from the Alternative Landscape series can be found at the Avram Eisen Gallery, 5204 North Damen Avenue, Chicago. Each diminutive painting expresses an alternative way in which to view a landscape. Light, shadow and colour express the essence of these diminutive landscapes. Strong elements held together by shadowy layers, convey the complex spirit of the land and nature. Time and space are held for the viewer alone to immerse into.

To purchase these works or for more information contact:
Avram Eisen Gallery
5204 North Damen Avenue
773.307-0273
www.avrameisengallery.com

Saturday, January 24, 2009

American Dream







The American Dream
Susan Barton
Barbed Wire, Steel with Jute
40 x 30", Available for purchase




Echoing lines of dried and plowed agricultural fields of a past harvests, Susan Barton's, The American Dream, encapsulates the significance of America's immigrant and agricultural past, while resonating current stuggles of new immigrants to the United States.

Intending to explore her own great grandparents immigrant past, the textile becomes a visual narrative; one of any typical German family who immigrated from an impoverished, over populated Prussian state near the turn of the century, to their intended land of promise and hope-America. Like many, finding back breaking work in the nation's fields became the only starting point for a new immigrant to the United States. Corroded barbed wire reflects the past they left and injustices they would face in this new world: from past conscripted military duty and hardships of trying to earn a living in Germany, to new hard manual labor and growing resentments towards increased European immigrants within the United States. A rough edged and unfinished steel frame encompasses the textile, contrasting the once heavily agricultural opportunities of the country giving way to the emerging promise of larger urban cities and the beginnings of the industrial revolution.