Long Island Artist Jeanine Klein Featured at Apple Bank Exhibition February 17 – April 13, 2009

(Smithtown, N.Y.) Smithtown Township Arts Council is pleased to announce that the works of Stony Brook artist Jeanine Klein will be on view at Apple Bank, 91 Route 111, Smithtown, February 17-April 13, 2009. The exhibition, part of STAC’s Outreach Gallery Program, can be viewed during regular bank hours.

Klein’s work is derived from East Asian Brush Painting (sumi-e), the application of black ink and watercolors to rice paper using special brushes to produce disciplined brushstrokes. Through her experimentation with different Asian handmade papers and their various textures, color, density, and absorption of paint, she has been able to integrate traditional brush painting with her own more personal artistic inclinations. “In my paintings, I almost exclusively present abstraction rather than literal depiction, as I find great pleasure in trying to project essence rather than photographic representation. In painting I experience a satisfying intuitive freedom of expression combined with utilizing the learned discipline of controlling brushstrokes, ink, water and color.” The addition of collage effects has “provided me with another avenue in which to utilize my precious papers along with occasional other materials.”

Klein’s work has been included in a number of juried gallery exhibitions. She was awarded Best in Show in the 2007 Annual Sumi-e Society of America exhibition, and Award of Excellence in the 2008 Smithtown Township Arts Council’s (STAC)  Member’s Art Forum exhibition. She has exhibited solo at various galleries, most recently at Gallery 4222 in Port Jefferson last September, with work painted on paper derived from elephant dung. Steve Parks remarks in his September 12, 2008, Newsday review of the show, “she likes the way lightly applied ink and watercolors are absorbed on the grainy surface, similar to rice paper – another surface she uses. No less an artist than Picasso praised the discipline hand-hewn paper requires.”

STAC is grateful to Apple Bank for its continued support of culture in our communities.

For more information, call the Smithtown Township Arts Council at 631-862-6575, or visit www.stacarts.org.

Smithtown Township Arts Council is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.

Smithtown Township Arts Council
Mills Pond House Gallery
660 Route 25A
St. James, NY 11780
www.stacarts.org
631-862-6575