Classical oil painting

Classical oil painting
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CLINTON HILL – An artistic trio have come together at the Clinton Hill Art Gallery for an extraordinary show titled “Maiden Voyage V – Ordinary Objects,” with a free talk with them this Sunday afternoon.The exhibit is on view through Feb. 1, and this Sunday’s “Meet the Artists Behind the Art” series free talk, from 2 to 4 p.m., marks the Fourth Anniversary Art Exhibit in the neighborhood’s Classical oil painting first ground-level gallery storefront, at 154a Vanderbilt Ave. The talk features spotlighted artists Mahtab Aslani and Jennifer Maloney.The popular gallery was open four years ago and is owned by director Lurita “LB” Brown, who first started Clinton Hill Art and Framing Gallery 18 years ago at 583 Myrtle Ave. It also marks the acclaimed Israeli sculptor and Kensington Terrace resident Yasmin Gur’s first show as a curator outside of The Crossroads Café, which she co-owns with Suzanne Meehan.

“We are all very excited about this beautiful show,” said Gur, also an educator and entrepreneur. “The paintings and sculptures make a personal connection with their artists and viewers in a very direct way for both. Their creation and the technique involved is an intensely personal experience, conveying that to the observer.”The current show features painters and art educators Aslani and Maloney along with Gur’s plywood sculpture. Aslani, originally from Tehran, Iran, lives in Bensonhurst and became friends with Gur, born and raised in Arad, Israel, when they first met on student visas while attending Brooklyn College in the late 1990s.

Brown praised Gur’s selection of the show’s artists, noting that Gur believes that their “Classical oil painting style continues to explore art’s beauty in the skillful use of just paint and brush.”Aslani’s images, on 3-by-5-foot oil paintings, the show’s press release states, “remind viewers that the personal drapery and random arrangements of undergarments can capture light, shapes and forms that create a new visual imagery” of finely woven decorative fabric objects “that express femininity and sensuality.”

“She effortlessly juxtaposes a figurative painterly style and abstraction,” said Gur about her friend’s paintings. “It makes you go behind the images and see what creative force was involved in creating them. There are layers of shape and color involved.”“I continue to use fabric as a source of inspiration,” said Aslani on the ArtToGo.com web site. “Although maybe traditionally associated with femininity, the models of my new paintings are selected for the sake of their color, texture and form in order to emphasize visual matters rather than to elicit specific symbolic associations.”

Brooklyn native Maloney, a painter and educator who lives in Marine Park, “reveals personal storytelling in each painting” through the “use of contemporary lifestyle objects,” states the press release. Maloney’s Realism style turns viewers into explorers of “ordinary utilitarian objects” whose intrinsic beauty is often overlooked.“Objects fascinate me for their function, form and the value we place on them,” said Maloney on her web site. “In my work, I seek a balance between the documentation of a moment and the monumental iconic quality of the ordinary object.