Night Colors Manhattan October 16, 2007

Night Colors Manhattan

Artist Receptions: Thursday, October 18 5-8 PM

Saturday, October 20 3-6 PM

October 16 - November 3, 2007

Gallery Hours: Tues - Sat 11-6 PM or by appointment

Venturing out into the streets of lower Manhattan past her usual daylight hours, Ellen Bradshaw sets out to explore that hour when the light goes down in the City sky and the lights go up in the City streets.

From purply-pink dusk into super saturated cobalt blue down to the deepest dark black of night - the sky is hushed.

And the lights go on as if on cue. From the tallest skyscrapers spreading to the streets below - green glowing office lights to garish street light, cozy shop lights to screaming taxi yellow, headlight reds, construction orange.

Capturing in paint – The way dusk splashes across a New York sky, transforming ugly buildings to splendor. A New York sunset that can make even a New Yorker stop and stare. The color play of lights New York puts on for show, proud symbols against dark night.

And perhaps the artist’s favorite. Color mood of stormy weather night, the driving snow abstracting, playing with one’s vision, a dream-like state of purply-brown grey, softening and dulling those New York edges. A giant mood sweeps over the City. Lonely solitary walkers brooding through the night.

New York poetry in paint.

Ellen’s work was influenced by the realism of the Ashcan painters, as well as the sense of color and atmosphere explored by the Impressionists.

She lives in lower Manhattan with her husband, Joe, a true night owl.

Ellen has shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions and is the recipient of several awards. She is a member of Allied Artists of America, Audubon Artists, Pen and Brush, and Salmagundi Club. She is President of Pleiades Gallery since 2000.

Official Website: http://www.pleiadesgallery.com