Amber Jean Young • Marius Bosc Miguel Rodriguez • Elena Zolotnitsky
THE ART OF ARRANGEMENT
Marius Bosc • Miguel Rodriguez • Amber Jean Young • Elena Zolotnitsky
December 5th, 2024 – January 31st, 2025
Bryant Street Gallery is excited to share The Art of Arrangement, a new collection of paintings by a distinctive array of accomplished artists. Marius Bosc, Miguel Rodriguez, Amber Jean Young, and Elena Zolotnitsky present four unique and defined approaches to the floral tableau. From disciplined, painterly brushwork to unbridled abstraction, this series tests the bounds and blurs the edges of the traditional approaches to still life. The exhibit will be on display from December 5th, 2024 to January 31st, 2025. The gallery and the artists welcome the public to an opening reception on Saturday, December 7th, from 3-5 p.m.
The four viewpoints represented in The Art of Arrangement vary wildly in tone, technique, and level of abstraction. Each artist has arrived at the subject via vastly different tracks yet all accomplish a particular vision, tracing long histories of artistic evolution. Placed together, their works enter into a conversation about the nature of still life, the breadth of the genre, and its effect on the viewer. From the staid serenity of Bosc’s paintings to the frenetic energy of Rodriguez’ compositions, from the playfulness of Young’s work to the somber sophistication of Zolotnitsky’s surfaces, this series offers a multitude of pathways into this classic form.
Miguel Rodriguez is a Connecticut-born artist who now resides in Washington, D.C. He produces dazzling abstract drawings bursting with psychedelic floral forms. Each composition teems with activity: richly saturated colors burst forth like fireworks, pastel swoops span from corner to corner, spilling into undulating oils, while charcoal lines vibrate with tension. His still lifes are anything but static; they explode across the page and shake up the thoughtful contemplation of the ephemerality of nature.
Marius Bosc is a Bay Area-based artist raised in the traditions of his French grandmothers. The culture he grew up in and the environment of the San Francisco Bay have been equally influential to his practice. His long history as a landscape painter is evident in his keen eye for light, color, and space. Bosc brings those same foundational elements to bear on his floral compositions, shifting the underlying sense of structure and atmosphere forward to a place of prominence. He treats the canvas as one whole, no piece more important than the other, the background rendered with as much care as the centerpiece.
Born in Moscow, Elena Zolotnitsky moved to the US in 1989, and has lived in Oakland since 2012. She is enchanted with the temporal beauty of flowers, which she renders in loose, brushy strokes that bleed into the background as if being washed away by time. She lays down only the most necessary brushwork, avoiding unnecessary detail at all cost. Her unique choice of medium –oil paint on mylar–creates a distinct atmosphere of softness and calm. The translucent properties of the mylar only add to the spectral sense of impermanence in her work.
Amber Jean Young is an interdisciplinary artist residing in Berkeley, California. Her work explores ideas about place, grief, and resilience across mediums, creating vibrant patterns and plant imagery in her compositions. She paints with a primitive wisdom, full of both childlike wonder and complexity. Evidence of her previous textilebased art can be found in her paintings, some of which give the impression of collaged bits of cloth, their various patterns interacting to create new sensory discoveries and weaving a narrative thread amidst the flora.
Marius Bosc Daisies in Jar Oil on canvas
48” x 44”
Marius Bosc Flowers in Cylinder Vase Oil on canvas
48” x 44”
Marius Bosc
Sunflowers in Jar on Table Oil on canvas
48” x 44”
Marius Bosc Roses
Oil on canvas
40” x 36”
Miguel Rodriguez
Beach Poem 6
Charcoal on paper
17” x 11”
Miguel Rodriguez
Beach Poem 3
Charcoal on paper
17” x 11”
Miguel Rodriguez Beach Poem 1
Charcoal on paper 17” x 11”
Miguel Rodriguez Constant Dance 21
Pastel on paper
30” x 22”
Miguel Rodriguez Constant Dance 23
Pastel on paper
30” x 22”
Miguel Rodriguez Constant Dance 29
Pastel on paper
30” x 22”
Amber Jean Young
Blue Checkered Urn
Acrylic, oil stick, and spray paint on canvas
20” x 16”
Amber Jean Young Pansies and flying geese
Acrylic on canvas
20” x 16”
Amber Jean Young
A Fern Arrangement
Acrylic and molding paste 20” x 16”
Amber Jean Young Flowers and Split Leaves
Acrylic on canvas
20” x 16”
Amber Jean Young
Pop those in a vase
Acrylic on canvas
40” x 30”
Amber Jean Young Urn #5
Glazed ceramic 6” x 4” x 4”
Amber Jean Young Urn #2
Glazed porcelain
11.5” x 6” x 6”
Amber Jean Young Vessel #3
Glazed porcelain
8.5” x 5” x 5”
LOST IN TRANSLATION (Valentines Series)
Oil on paper mounted on panel 32” x 28”
Elena Zolotnitsky
Oil on paper mounted on panel 32” x 28”
Elena Zolotnitsky
SUMMER LOVIN
Oil and masking tape on mylar 19.5” x 19.5”
Elena Zolotnitsky LOST GARDEN
WILTING VALENTINES
Oil on paper mounted on panel 25.5” x 14”
Elena Zolotnitsky
Oil on vinyl mounted on panel 20” diameter
Elena Zolotnitsky PRIMAVERA (tondo)
