Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is extremely pleased to announce that Toni Silber-Delerive has been named as the Gallery’s new featured artist and she will now be promoted by the gallery for the next 14 days in the gallery’s Artist Showcase.
Toni Silber-Delerive is an award-winning artist based in New York, USA. She was selected as 1 of the top twelve finalists in the gallery’s 28th Solo Art Exhibition Series. The placement in this competition qualified her artwork to be showcased in this feature.
Toni Silber-Delerive’s Artist Showcase feature will be promoted to hundreds of major news outlets, with inclusion on Google News & Bing News. In addition, the gallery will also be featuring and promoting her artwork in the gallery’s various social media networks for further exposure.
Below are Toni Silber-Delerive’s Artist Biography, Artist Statement and 5 of her aerial-view paintings that were submitted to this competition.
Philadelphia native Toni Silber-Delerive earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting from the Philadelphia College of Art. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art Education from Kean College in New Jersey, and also studied graphic design and silkscreen printing at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
Toni, a Manhattan-based artist, has gained recognition with her work being showcased in various prestigious institutions. Her pieces are found in museums, private, and corporate collections, and she has participated in numerous exhibitions, including solo shows at prominent venues in New York such as the National Arts Club, Rockefeller Gallery, NY Studio Gallery in Chelsea, James Beard House, Interchurch Center, Blue Hill Plaza, Adelante Gallery, and Speakeasy Gallery.
Her work has been featured in group exhibitions at prestigious galleries including Van der Plas, Curate NYC, Blue Mountain, Prince Street, Dacia Gallery, Equity Gallery, and Kaller Fine Arts in Washington, DC and at George Segal, and Riverside Gallery in New Jersey.
My aerial-view paintings represent diverse places and spaces of the contemporary landscape seen from an above ground perspective. The flattened surface planes convey the textures of abstract space enhanced by compositional aesthetics and skillful use of color.
From the elevated position of high-rise buildings and helicopters, my images of cities and towns, factories and farmlands, power plants, suburban communities and highways are delivered with a distinctive angle on structures frequently taken for granted. Through the aerial vantage point one discovers a modern perspective and fresh visual vocabulary. The flattened plane reduces details to strong graphic images.
More than just a recording of the contemporary landscape, my paintings are my own interpretation of the essence of these scenes. They combine elements of abstraction and representation, pattern and grid, surface, and illusion, as well as observation, imagination, and memory.
Whether hovering high above city streets and highways, floating serenely over the countryside, or soaring above towns, harbors, and monuments, they examine the relationship between man-made and natural, urban and rural, agrarian and industrial, power, labor and leisure. My work can be understood on many levels, from the simple interplay of shape and color to the narrative of the pictorial story.
To learn more about Toni and to see more of her artworks, please visit her website.
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