Wendy Gittler

Confluences of Time and Place

My last exhibit encompassed a selective series of paintings and collages conceived over many decades that are linked by recurrent leitmotifs. In my earlier years, place played a dominant role. Most of my voyages were centered around the Mediterranean with occasional forays to Mexico, Central America and Florida. Although the personages and landscapes were initially observed from particular places and events, they later became submerged sites of memory that slowly faded into myth.

Most of these works were conceived at the intersection between memory, perception and chance. Thus space becomes more porous, personages reappear, mutate and meet at the confluence of disparate moments of time and space. Diverse perspectival vantage points create spatial discontinuities, allowing both the collages and paintings to become more layered paralleling the effects of time and memory.

Continuity, interruptions, dissonances all form the spatial rhythms that ally these works to musical and choreographic sequences.

Wendy Gittler has a Master Degree in both painting and art history. She has taught at Hunter College, The School of Visual Arts, Parsons School of Design, and the New York Studio School; and has also traveled extensively in the Mediterranean and subtropics. She is also the organizer and moderator for the annual Artists Equity panels concerning vital issues and themes for contemporary painters. Her work is in numerous private collections and in the permanent collection of Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia and S.E. Missouri State University Museum.