The Harbor Gallery in Rowayton, Ct.
is pleased to show the work of Maureen Renahan -Krinsley.
Maureen Renahan Krinsley received her undergraduate degree from Skidmore College in Art and her Master’s degree from Pratt Institute.
Her work is in both private and corporate collections both in the USA and internationally. In the past she was commissioned to do work for the ICU waiting room, the lobby, and the floors of The Stamford Hospital and The Tully Medical Center. She now has numerous works in the beautiful new building of Stamford Hospital. This had all been curated by Kathy Sachs.
She has exhibited nationally and is an Artist Member and has been on the Board of Directors of The Silvermine Guild of Artists and The New York Society of Woman Artists. She has been juried into shows and received numerous awards from esteemed leaders in the art world such as Andre Emmerich (The Emmerich Gallery), Paula Cooper, (The Paula Cooper Gallery), Cora Rosevear, (The Museum of Modern Art), Jill Snyder, (The Aldrich Museum), Lisa Messenger, (Curator of 20th Century Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art) , Anne Tempkin, (Chief Curator of Painting at The MOMA), George King, (The Georgia O’Keefe Museum), David Pease, (Dean of the School of Art of Yale University), Maurice Tuchman, (formally the Chief Curator for the Los Angeles Museum of Art), and Elizabeth Smith, ( Chief Curator of the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art).
Recently, she has exhibited in several shows in the British Virgin Islands. She has a had a One Person Show at Images Gallery, curated by Lisa Gray, the gallery owner and director there. Her work is presently being prominently shown at the Pier Gallery in the BVI ,Tortola run by David Penn and Jillian Dunlop.
Locally, Ms. Renahan- Krinsley has recently had One Person Shows at the Mayor's Gallery in Stamford, curated by Lina Morelli. Her exhibition at the The Schoolhouse Arts Center and Theater in North, Salem, NY. was curated by Ulker Berdimurat, art director, here she also coordinated with Artistic Director of The Schoolhouse Theater and Arts Center , Bram Lewis for the play, " Mask of the Jaquar King".
In her body of work, Maureen Renahan Krinsley, trained as a painter, combines the media of acrylic paint, photography, cold wax oil and soft pastels, graphite and encaustic wax. Her work builds on the associations of memory and experience and has been inspired by travel and impressions of different cultures and landscapes. Her intention is to convey emotional reactions to a particular place. In this body of abstract landscapes the artist paints abstractions of our natural environment and its vulnerability. She was affected personally when a category 5 storm devastated the BVI during Hurricane Irma two years ago.
She paints abstractions as a way to share her respect for the natural and to focus the the beautiful both in color and light.
In these series of paintings I am very interested in the many ways the sea transforms us. I study the sea and cloud formations and watch there energy transform me. They are forceful, calm. It is mysterious, pellucid, opaque. They are roaring, churning. They are still, calm, and clear. They are flamboyant and seeping of color. They are gray. They are merciless. They are sublime. They are giving. I am transfixed.
The range of color, light, motion in the sea and its sky express the evocative feeling of landscape. I hope to express the sensation of the sea and its' metaphor of the transformation of energy in the pared down forms of my work.
I have been very concerned about global warming and its' effect on the sea and how this force impacts the earth. I have just experienced the hurricane Irma wreak havoc on my community in the British Virgin Islands.
My Purpose for Painting:
How can I connect to life? The quiet of the sea causes this reflection but it is not the point for it to look like it. Just to refer to it. But it is meant to be what the sea leaves inside of you, the remainder of the experience.
These landscapes are not just about place , but about how seeing and being apart of these landscapes .They are reflective of how nature helps connect one to the earth and its richness and its everlasting quality. The earth will continue in its own way with or without man. And so, this is what I feel when I paint. It is what I try to convey, it is my reaction to this concept of the universal ,the continuous. They are titled according to what I see but in my mind the are more.
This is a painting done about climate change and its affect on ocean life. I used old dried plastic to create this painting. It is a statement about how a particular particle like plastic can affect the the ocean.
19"× 13". Painting. Save our Oceans, plastic, mixed media. Half of the world's sea turtles have ingested plastic or human trash. Millions of sea life have died. Plastic is petroleum based and not degradable. Little microscopic bits of plastic degrade and get eaten by turtles. They mistake plastic floating objects, for example, bags for jellyfish.This painting is made with degraded plastic and cold wax.
This is a detail of my painting. Much of my work refers to our natural environment as I hold it dear. It is very disturbing to see how much damage humans are imposing on it. But here the focus, is on plastic and sea life.
As a US citizen, who has a home in the BVI, I am very aware of the ocean and have seen extreme changes like Hurricane Irma, a category 5 storm in The BVI which was catastrophic to the islands.
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