Recent Paintings, Further Out in Space

"Green Gravity", Interference Acrylic on canvas, 36" x 54", © 2016

"Space Floaters", Interference Acrylic on canvas, 36" x 60", © 2016

"Blue Gravity", Acrylic & metallic powder on canvas, 36" x 72", © 2016

"Becoming Gemini", Interference Acrylic on canvas, 54" x 54", © 2016

"Io, Callisto, Europa & Ganymede", Interference Acrylic on canvas,  © 2016

Here are my recent paintings. They are less dependent on Hubble or other telescopic images, and more on my play with ideas about "what could be out there"; weather conditions, other planetary bodies and physical realities we may have not yet dreamed of. 

I must admit that the seductive qualities of paint are one of the factors that have encouraged  this magnetic trance-like direction. But then, learning that Jupiter has 67 moons, and that Galileo only saw 4, has helped me along my path as well.

"Heaven and Earth" Exhibition Continues

Installation view of "Heaven and Earth"

Installation view of "Heaven and Earth"

Eleven Space Collages

In The Beginning

Installation view of "Heaven and Earth"

"Heaven and Earth", an two person exhibit of paintings by Sandra Kaplan and James Cook, curated by Simon Zalkind and installed in the Singer Gallery of the JCC/Mizel Center for Art and Culture, at 350 S. Dahlia Street in Denver, continues through December 18, 2015. Hours are Monday through Friday, 9 AM - 4 PM, Sunday, 1 PM - 4 PM, closed Saturday.

An artist's talk and closing party, with Sandra Kaplan and Simon Zalkind will be on Thursday, December 17. Please watch here for the details, to be announced later. 

Star Gazing and My Totally Updated Web Site

                        "Star Gazing", 18" X 18"on canvas, mixed media

"R = 15 KPC", 18" X 18" on panel, acrylic

Please check out  my totally up-dated and re-organized web site at www.sandrakaplan.com. 

There are seven galleries of my work, plus listings of my future workshops and other services. 

The two images above, "Star Gazing" and "R = KPC" are from my latest project, "Space Stories", which was initially inspired by some Hubble images that my daughter, Sacha Wolff sent. Sacha is an aerospace engineer, and our discussions, which often consist of her trying to explain some aspect of her interests to me, or telling me that she can't, have pointed my work in unexpected directions a number of times.

I found historical astronomical images, and many intriguing scientific charts in astronomy books. My initial plan was to playfully do a chronological survey of cosmological  concepts. But as I became more immersed in Egyptian, Sumerian, Chinese, Arabic and European images of day and night, or our cosmos, constellations, and comets, I began to think that chronology should have nothing to do with my plans. Yesterday's "proven" scientific ideas about the nature of our world constantly are replaced by new discoveries, and become today's folklore. 

In my extremely liberal misinterpretation of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, I would  almost randomly organize my multi-panel paintings. And give myself the liberty to come up with my own "Space Stories".

                    "Space Stories", 54" X 54" on 6 canvases, multi media