Elise Ansel

Art Brokerage: Elise Ansel American Artist: b. 1961. Using energetic gestural abstract abstraction, Elise Ansel translates Old Master paintings into a contemporary pictorial language. She mines art historical imagery for color and form, setting aside the narrative and pictorial elements of these paintings and thus creating room for new interpretations. Her works interrupt linear readings of Old Master paintings, repurposing and highlighting the unexpected. The representational content is transformed into a celebration of color, gesture and the materiality of paint. In the process of reducing her inspirations to their most fundamental forms she retains their power and energy, replacing imagery with dynamic movement and dramatic color and light. Listings wanted.