THE ART OF TIME & PLACE: ANGELA DUFRESNE & MEGHANN RIEPENHOFF
Looking back over a year of art exhibitions in our quest for Best of 2020, we've gathered some of our favorites from The Armory Show, New York City’s premier art fair. It features some of the world’s most important 20th- and 21st-century art, represented by leading international galleries. This annual show has served as a nexus for the art world since its founding in 1994, where top collectors come to satisfy their passions.
Today, we present selected works by artist Angela Dufresne and photographer Meghann Riepenhoff, each represented by the Yossi Milo Gallery. Check them out below.
Fluid watery images, layered like double exposures left out in the rain, Angela Dufresne’s signature compositions combine new impressionistic landscapes with historical reference.
Dufresne’s oil paintings begin as highly gestural multi-color underpaintings on canvas, before she “covers” historical paintings by artists such as Gustave Courbet, Joan Mitchell, Carrie Moyer, Catherine Murphy, Alice Neel, John Singer Sargent and Carolee Scheemann.
Dufresne’s work have been on exhibition at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; MoMA PS1, New York; Portland Museum of Art, Portland; RISD Museum, Providence; National Academy of Arts and Letters, New York; Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn; Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland; among others.
Dufresne grew up in Olathe, Kansas. She received an MFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia and a BFA from Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO. She has served on the faculty of Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Madison, MN; and Sarah Lawrence College, NY. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
“Ticket Line.” Painting by Angela Dufresne.
Meghann Riepenhoff uses the ocean to create images of the ocean… ocean self portraits, in essence. By coating photosensitive paper with homemade cyanotype emulsion and exposing surfaces to life, as the elements of nature, with living creatures and natural forces moving in their own inimitable ways, leaving their marks.
The images, developed by the sun, appear painterly, with swirls of deep blues. Salt from ocean water reacts with the cyan emulsion to create beautiful Pollack-like white spatters. The artist time-stamps each work in its title.
Riepenhoff’s “cameraless” photography uses primitive techniques, inspired by Anna Atkins, who is often referred to as the first female photographer, who experimented with homemade cyanotypes in the mid-19th century, creating photograms of “ocean flowers.”
Riepenhoff received an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute and a BFA from University of Georgia.
See more works by Meghann Riepenhoff and Angela Dufresne at The Armory Show and Yossi Milo Gallery in New York.
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