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“Big Band and the Trifid”, mixed media on 4 canvases, 36” x 84”, 2014
Bereishit – Heaven and Earth Paintings by Sandra Kaplan and James Cook Singer Gallery exhibit opens October 8 – December 18, 2015 Opening Reception, Thursday, October 8, 5:00 – 7:30 pm
works are in the best tradition of American landscape painting. They are big and gutsy, lavish and gorgeous. Cook’s paintings bring us closer to the sublime splendor of the Earth – an earth not-yet-invaded or touched by human hands. Kaplan’s and Cook’s virtuoso paintings take us back to the “first day” – the day that God created the Heavens and the Earth and “saw that this was good.”
“Bereishit – Heaven and Earth: Paintings by Sandra Kaplan and James Cook” is inspired by the opening verses of Bereishit in which God creates the Heavens and the Earth. Sandra Kaplan, a much-celebrated Colorado artist, has created a body of work called “Galactic Stories.” These paintings and collages, many of which are based on photographs taken by the Hubble telescope, are astonishing in their capacity to reawaken a sense of the wonderment and vastness of the sky and the cosmos. In them, history, science, astronomy, philosophy and art collide. James Cook’s
Sandra Kaplan graduated with honors from Pratt Institute in NYC. She has been living in Denver since 1971. Her paintings may be found in corporate and private collections throughout the United States, as well as in Stockholm, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Hong Kong and Japan. Kaplan is on the faculty of the Art Students League of Denver, and after six years of dedication, has just rotated off of the board of the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver. She has Bereishit - Heaven and Earth continues on page 3