GOOD NATURE Art Exhibition Opens Sat. 3/12 at Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport

Amy Simon Fine Art, located at 1869 Post Road East, Westport is pleased to announce its latest exhibition, Good Nature: Liz Dexheimer; Jeri Eisenberg and Cara Enteles. The show opens March 12th and features work by three exceptional artists whose work is inspired by nature.

Liz Dexheimer’s oil on canvas works explore shape, surface and pattern as they relate to aspects of the natural environment. She is interested in conveying the abstracts: timelessness, continuity and a sense of place. In her beautiful nature based works, there is a visual interplay between light and dark, motion and stillness.

The paintings are deconstructed and rebuilt. They are ethereal and atmospheric landscapes that are, at the same time, intangible, illusive and reductive.

Jeri Eisenberg works primarily with non-traditional and alternative photo-based techniques to create single and multi panel works of archival pigment ink on Kozo paper, infused with encaustic (wax) medium.

Her subject matter is nature (trees, leaves, flowers, etc.). She

represses or subverts traditional photography’s emphasis on the representational qualities of the medium and emphasizes its expressive nature. Her works evoke a sense of memory and visceral connection. She affirms the beauty in the everyday natural world with a reminder of the temporal condition and an elegy for life.

Cara Enteles strives to hold a mirror up to nature (as Shakespeare said) and paints the dichotomy between organic natural growth and man’s attempt to control it. She addresses environmental issues while, at the same time, creating beautiful images of plants, water and animals.

Since she paints on industrial supports, aluminum panels or layers of plexiglas, Enteles’ work contains an inherent tension between the organic subject matter depicted and the materials with which they are constructed. This reinforces the realistic and imperative nature of Enteles’ concern for the environment.

These three extraordinary artists each portray nature from different perspectives and with different mediums. They have one common thread: a respect and admiration for nature.

This exhibition is on view from March 12th though April 23rd. There is an exhibition Open House on Saturday, March 12th from 2 to 4 p.m. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11 to 5:30 and by appointment. For further information, please call 203-259-1500 or check the website, www.amysimonfineart.com