WENDY LETVEN
“Flowtopia III”
A “Fresh Air Montclair exhibition” 427 Bloomfield Ave., Montclair NJ 07042
Special thanks: Greenwood Development, Saxum Real Estate
Night View with illumination, photo credit Kevin Schumacher
This is the third iteration of the installation of “Flowtopia”. It was previously exhibited at Market Art and Design in Bridgehampton, NY and earlier this year at The Urban Outfitter’s Corporate Headquarters at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. With this work I am concerned with the idea of alchemy... the desire to transform metal into a universal elixir.
Through a reductive process I form impressions of naturally occurring patterns and flows of energy seen and felt in daily life. I reference and contrast a diversity of biologic and manufactured form evocative of things as disparate as bee hives, electric circuits, the branching patterns of veins in the human body and the distortions of space/time.
Unifying these through color, line and spatial illusion, I wish to create a composition that excites the eye and mind, but through the nature of flow, elicits a state of harmony and well-being in the viewer.
Wendy Letven is a multidisciplinary artist working in sculpture, installation and painting. Her work has been exhibited at The Hunterdon Art Museum, Portal Governor’s Island, Art on Paper Fair, K. Imperial Fine Art, the Flatiron Prow Artspace, The Sheila R. Johnson Gallery, Geraldine R. Doge Foundation, and Pulse Miami, among other places internationally. Wendy is a MacDowell Colony Fellow and a recipient of a Workspace Grant from Dieu Donne Papermill in NYC. Letven received a BFA from Tyler School of Art and an MFA from Hunter College and teaches Art at Parsons, Montclair State and NYU. Wendy has a solo show up at Fou Gallery in Brooklyn. She is also represented by NL=US, based out of Glen Ridge and the Netherlands, where she will have a two-person show, along with her husband and collaborator, sculptor, Gary Fredriksen.