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Another artist I admire.... Jaanika Peerna..

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I met Jaanika when I was studing art in Tallinn, we were teaching young artists in a summer school and we got friends. I have been following her about 15 years now, buying her photographs and visiting her in New York. Here is some information about her and some of her drawings I like....

Jaanika Peerna is an artist living and working in New York. She works at the crossroads of digital and traditional media, often dealing with the themes of water, simplicity and silence in drawing, video, and installations. Her 2010 exhibitions include the Dorsky Curatorial Projects in New York, Dubai Video Biennial and solo exhibitions at ArtDepoo Gallery in Tallinn, Estonia as well as at A.R.C. Fine Art in Fairfield, CT.  She has exhibited her work extensively in entire New York metropolitan area as well as in Paris, Lisbon, and Rome. She has an MFA in intermedia design from SUNY New Paltz, and she has worked as teaching artist at DIA:Beacon and the Visual Thinking Strategies project of the Soros Foundation.

If You want to know more about her, click on her drawings!

 

One of my favorite artist Joan Snyder

Abstract painting, Favorite artist, Painting acrylic, Painting mixed mediaEeli PolliComment

I found a book about her paintings in Washington D.C, when I was living there 2005 and visiting different art shows. I fell in love in her art in the spot and every time I look her work I get so inspired! So here comes little bit information about her and my favorite art work of hers.

Joan Snyder (born April 16, 1940) is an American painter from New York. She is a MacArthur Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow. Her paintings have been exhibited at several museums, including the de Saisset Museum and the Jewish Museum.

Joan Snyder's "stroke paintings" from the late 1960s and early 1970s were "abstract compositions, many of them quite large, that are loosely based on a grid format and that together constitute a dissection of the language of painting."

Her paintings have been described as "abstract", "intuitive and spontaneous", and "pointedly political". She also paints with a colorful style, using floral effects which are branded with paint sprinkled with a range of materials, such as jewel-like metal objects.

Some of her work: