Artist’s
Statement
Adele Travisano
I
received a MFA at Pratt Institute, in 1968, where I studied
with George McNeil, who was a student of Hans Hofmann.
Therefore, I consider myself a product of the
20th
century New York school of
Abstract Expressionism.
Although my work is representational, it explores the
plasticity of paint; the push pull of space; the defining
of form, space and light by color; and the movement and
rhythm of color throughout. I am unabashedly in love with
paint and the painterly.
All of my paintings are really portraits: gardens,
vegetables, fruits, seashells, and rocks. These are
subjects that want to be painted, not simply represented in
oils on a canvas, but made again in such a way that shows,
along with their outward appearance, the life that is in
them. Therefore my painting process is about the
transformation of life and energy into paint.
My work has appeared in galleries and museums in New
England, New York, and New Jersey, including Acme Fine Art
Gallery on Newbury St. in Boston, the Cherry Stone Gallery
in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, and the William Benton Museum
in Storrs, Connecticut. In addition to one-woman shows, I
have exhibited my paintings in group shows which included
works by Hans Hofmann, George McNeil, Robert Motherwell,
Berenice Abbott, Edwin Dickinson, Red Grooms, Louise
Bourgeois, Robert Beauchamp, Will Barnet, Jack Tworkov, and
Tobi Kahn, among others. My work may be found in
collections nationwide, including those of Graham Gund and
the Bank of America.