Helaine Blumenfeld: Tree of Life | Gainsborough's House
Exhibitions
Thomas Gainsborough and Helaine Blumenfeld, though separated by time, meet in their poetic sensibility, rhythmic fluidity of form, in dream-like imagery and the universal language of beauty.When the art historian Michael Rosenthal described Gainsborough as “one of the most technically proficient and, at the same time, most experimental artists of his time“, he could have also been describing Blumenfeld today. A master marble carver, testing the limits of her material, Blumenfeld creates impossibly thin, undulating structures through a profound understanding of the boundaries of her materials. Like Gainsborough and his lightbox, Blumenfeld's luminous works celebrate the light within. In bronze, she works with her foundry in Italy on innovations including experimental patinas using silver nitrate.