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Manhattan Arts Gallery
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April Dune
acrylic on canvas, 23" x 34" |
The Kalachev Bridge,
acrylic on canvas, 24" x 35"
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Above Oslo
acrylic and ink on canvas, 22" x 35" |
Albuquerque Sunset
acrylic on canvas, 28" x 46" |
The Shell Monument
acrylic on linen, 30" x 21"
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Yellow
acrylic on canvas, 14" x 16" |
Artist Profile
Eleanor Gilpatrick paints landscapes, figural works, and still lifes that capture fragments of the world. They first arrest the viewer in terms of composition and color and then resolve into surprising takes on content. Gilpatrick deals with modern issues of color and composition within a primarily realist context. Recently she has begun to express her feelings about what is happening in the world in her "In The World" series. She works in acrylic on canvas.
Prior to her art career Gilpatrick was professor at the School of Health Sciences, Hunter College, City University of New York. Gilpatrick authored four books, directed a masters program in health services administration, and pioneered courses in critical thinking and writing.
Gilpatrick has annual solo shows at the Jadite Galleries, Manhattan (next one will be in May 2008); and is in group shows at the Riverview Gallery in Havre de Grace, MD, April 2006-March 2008. She has been in over 25 juried shows since 2000. Public art includes "Crosswalk Gestures," at Hunter College, Manhattan. A profile of Gilpatrick's figural work and the development of her palette appeared in American Artist Magazine, November 2002. A column about her Aquarium Series appeared in Watermarks, Summer 2006. Her painting, The Shell Monument, is the August selection in The Emerging Artists 2007 Calendar.
Gilpatrick finds that "coming back to my first love, painting, made me younger -- and without the angst of youth." She was surprised that what she was moved to paint did not seem to be political, but instead were affirmations of life and a celebration of beauty, but now, the "sublime" beauty which responds to the tawdry, ugly, and grotesque is being contrasted with the real world of our time.
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