2010s Art of Renee Radell

 

Artist Bio highlights. Renee Radell’s move to a new Chelsea art studio provided space and abundant natural light which perhaps contributed to a concentrated venture into abstract art late in her long figurative painting career.  Non-objective and abstract paintings have appeared from time to time in her work since the 1950s.  However, this extended series of abstract paintings involving multiple artworks, including some with musical themes influenced by her lifetime love of classical music.  This sophisticated version of music art from a master colorist, is expressed in a dramatic abstract music painting series in her 2010s art period that would again draw critical acclaim.

 

True to form,  within this abstract art series, Radell’s lifetime commitment to figurative art would occasionally surface in her 2010s art, as groups of figures live as abstracted shapes en masse.  Social commentary themes, including references to what some would consider environmental art, also provide a glimpse into the mind of an artist who has for over 70 years made existential observations with aesthetic grace.

 

In 2016, Predmore Press published an artist monograph Renee Radell Web of Circumstance by Eleanor Heartney. In her essay, Heartney recalls the question posed by feminist art historian Linda Nochlin in 1971 “Why have there been no great women artists?”  We agree with Heartney that Renee Radell joins the canon of great women artists that Nochlin insinuated have always existed.

 

(scroll down for Renee Radell 2010s Art timeline)

A painting of a baby laying on the ground
2010
A painting of a yellow and purple abstract scene.
2011
A painting of a man 's face with beard and mustache.
2012

Mirror Mirror, a portrait of Lloyd Radell, sells at Sotheby's New York Contemporary Art sale.

A painting of red, yellow and blue colors
2013
A painting of various human figures and instruments.
2014

Moves to a studio space in Tribeca, Manhattan, continuing allegorical themes based on studio still life.

A painting of a man playing the flute.
2016

Renée Radell Web of Circumstance (Predmore Press), a monograph by Eleanor Heartney, is published, celebrating a 70-year career of artistic accomplishments.