Adrienne Kaplan
Surf and Turf

January 2 – February 9, 2013

Opening Reception
Friday, January 18, 2013
7 – 9 pm

This group of paintings comes from Adrienne Kaplan’s lifelong love of being outside. Some are direct, plein-air, others are composites from sketches and a variety of reference material. When the unfinished pieces come into her studio they often change due to the variety and abundance of acrylic materials available.

The title Surf and Turf  represents her focus on two distinct contrasting environments. The Surf  paintings are based on her love of the pleasure of the beach, sand, water, animals and people. Turf refers to the University of Michigan Arboretum paintings that have been Ms. Kaplan’s constant companion and model for years: the woods, the trees, the flowers, the animals, the changing colors and forms.

Artist Statement:

“Surf and Turf combines imagery based on two distinctly different environments: the seaside and the woods. I am a seasonal painter. I can, but I do not like to, make art about a time I am not in.  I prefer showing art of the current season, but that is not happening here. This is work from last year, the spring and summer of 2012.

It is not conceptual. It did not start from an idea. It started from something concrete in my visual world and became an interplay between the paint on the surface and my idea and feeling about the subject I had chosen.” 

— Adrienne Kaplan