SPRING SELECTIONS

Madelyn Jordon Fine Art is pleased to present SPRING SELECTIONS, a group exhibition featuring new works by our gallery artists and a few favorites from our inventory.  Artists include Marit Geraldine Bostad, Stanley Boxer, Ron Ehrlich, Eugene Healy, Clay Johnson, Wosene Worke Kosrof, Rachel M. Mac, Yangyang Pan, Hunt Slonem, and others. The exhibition will be on view from May 24 - June 30, 2023.

SPRING SELECTIONS introduces two new artists to the gallery, Clay Johnson from Laramie, Wyoming and Rachel M. Mac from Brooklyn, New York.  Also included in the exhibition are new additions by gallery stalwarts Eugene Healy, Wosene Worke Kosrof, Yangyang Pan, and Hunt Slonem, and handpicked works by Marit Geraldine Bostad, Stanley Boxer, and Ron Ehrlich.  With range and depth, we bring together artwork that will enliven the spirit and tantalize the senses. Spring has certainly sprung at MJFA.

Clay Johnson and Eugene Healy are American abstract painters whose reductivist compositions explore the relationships between color, form, and texture. Motivated by process rather than planning, both artists are guided by visceral reactions to the physical qualities of paint, the quest for pictorial balance, and the emergence of abstract relationships. 

Marit Geraldine Bostad and Rachel M. Mac create fresh and invigorating abstract paintings that are richly colored and textured, incorporating gestural brushstrokes with acrylic paints. Bostad is influenced by memories and people, whose essence she intuitively attempts to preserve on the canvas. Mac uses her background as a professional cellist to create works that combine the structural form and composition found in both architectural and orchestral works.

Hunt Slonem’s spirited, Expressionist paintings feature flat, outlined characters in exuberant and bold fauvist palettes of colors. Slonem’s beloved menagerie of animals from bunnies and butterflies to birds showcase his devotion to the wildlife in our natural world.

Reflecting both Eastern and Western sensibilities.  Yangyang Pan and Ron Ehrlich construct paintings that integrate aspects of figuration and abstraction. Classically trained in China, Pan’s seasonal, abstract florals feature thick, textured brushstrokes of varying amorphous shapes and colors that merge into a beautifully, chaotic bouquets of saturated color.  Informed by his extended studies in Japan, Ehrlich scrapes, scratches, and drips paint on the canvas’s surface, even using a blowtorch, to fuse colors and forms when creating his  compositions.

Twentieth century, postwar artist Stanley Boxer stands at the top ranks of American Artists. His ‘all over’ abstract impasto oil paintings incorporate found objects, such as concrete, seeds, sawdust, pebbles, string, and glitter, embedded and haphazardly arranged onto the surface of the canvas. The enigmatic titles of his work are verbal attempts to capture the movement and gestures in his works.

Drawing upon African traditions, personal experience, American jazz, and Western art practices, internationally renowned, Ethiopian-born artist Wosene Worke Kosrof is best known for his ingenious depictions of the Amharic script on his canvases. Elongating, distorting, and reassembling the Fidel alphabet into new forms and symbols, the color-drenched, textured surfaces embody kinetic energy and visual power.