Bobbi Kovner | Green Resolutions #1-12

June 1 - 30, 2024
Opening Reception with the artist Saturday June 1st from 3:00-5:30pm

I am besotted by plants and flowers -their form, their color, their contrasting meaning and function...
 As markers of seduction and marriage, birth and death, serenity and celebration;
As sexual receptables vibrating with thrum, buzz, wind and heat;
Indoors as cut, curated artistry and ornament; 
Devolving from their prime into rank chaos - faded, battered, hanging by single thread to a stalk.

The paradox of these opposites exhilarates.
How to include both states, without erasing one ….. 

Abstract marks overlay representational botanical forms;
Textured, built-up areas loom over drawn remnants;
Earliest marks resist, remain …. the painting’s history still visible.

Illuminated stems and seeds impose paths, hint at water channels, road systems, and organic networks - be they brain or heart.

— Bobbi Kovner 2024

Bobbi Kovner has a BA from Wheaton College; MA Degrees from Columbia University and Lesley University; and a diploma from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She has taught Theory of Design seminars and Advanced Drawing at Endicott College. Her work has been shown at the New Museum in NYC, Tryst Gallery, Forest Gallery, Gallery Lumiere, and the Attleboro and Springfield Museums in Massachusetts. Works are currently on loan to the Decordova Museum. Kovner has been selected for numerous exhibitions and awards. Her work is held in private and publlic collections. Kovner has completed multiple commissions for national corporations, including a large 36-ft long mural for the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas commissioned through Creiger Dane Gallery.

For a slideshow of works in the exhibition, please scroll down. Then click on the arrow at right.