Description
‘Membrane’ by Vanessa Powers
Artist: Vanessa Powers
Title: ‘Membrane’
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 11″ x 14″ x 1.5″
Framing: Unframed
Year of Creation: 2024
Artwork Will Ship From: USA
About the Artwork:
‘Membrane’ is a contemplation of the porous space between life and death and the connection between those that have passed and the living. This painting is a depiction of the creation and non destructive nature of energy and the cyclical rhythms of the natural world. – Vanessa Powers
About the Artist:
(Artist Bio)
Vanessa Powers is a figurative oil painter working in the new surrealist style. She exhibits her work both nationally and internationally with recent exhibitions at La Luz de Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles, Modern Eden Gallery in San Francisco, the juried exhibition Surreal Salon at Baton Rouge Gallery in Louisiana, and with Jonathan Levine Projects at Ki Smith Gallery in New York City. In 2024, her work was permanently installed in large scale ad space in a Queens subway station in partnership with the New York City based non-profit ChasHaMa and the Metropolitan Transit Authority as a part of the Vacant Unit Activation Program. Vanessa was awarded the Caumsett Foundation Artist Residency at Caumsett State Historic Park Preserve in Lloyd Harbor, New York which took place in August and September 2024.
Previous projects include her work printed as a billboard in Brooklyn with the non-profit SaveArtSpace in 2019 and the inclusion of her mural in “Anthropocene” a curated mural cycle at First Street Green Art Park in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 2018. Vanessa received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan and is currently based in and from New York.