BIO:
Jeanette Arnone-K. is a native New Yorker, born into a family with Italian heritage who treasured their handicraft skills and they began her art training in her early years. Ms. Arnone had been making expressionistic figures in terra cotta for many years. For the past seven years she focused on making acrylic, watercolor and pastel works on paper and canvas and on murals, many exploring the now crucial ecological issues of our time.
Jeanette's recent involvement with abstract art is growing into a complementary juxtaposition to her more serious concerns thereby releasing her from the burden of thought while creating, and trusting her spirit to guide her into "formless" form and color. What seems to remain a constant in Jeanette's work is her visual expression of movement, music and drama evoking emotions and moods, whether they be subjective or abstract images or a fusion of both. Her images range from timely concerns of the human condition to pure lark and fancy.
Jeanette thanks you for your interest and invites you to e-mail her and share your comments.
RECENT/UPCOMING EXHIBITS:
Ongoing, annually changing Mural since the year 2002, dealing with Ecology as part of her "Symbiosis Lost?" series.Prints are available. Ms. Arnone donates 20% to Green Non-Profits.
See it at:Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue,(on the lower level) btwn East 9th & 10th Streets, NY, NY viewing hours: noon to 7pm Tuesdays through Sundays
"Abstract 2008"; a group exhibit with the West Side Arts Coalition Broadway Mall: West 96th St. & Bway (in the mid-isle of Bway), NY, NY Wed., Oct. 1st to Sun., Oct. 19th, 2008.
Theater for the New City Gallery presents: PORTRAITS October 6- September 27, 2008 A multimedia group show of NYC portraitS.
"A Visual Feast"; a West Side Arts Coalition group exhibit Reception: Sat., Nov. 15th 6-8pm "Jeanette's Folly about Human Folly" (with enough rope to . . .!)at Lafayette Grill, 54-56 Franklin St., (City Hall area, downtown), NY,NY Wed., Nov.9th to Sun. Dec.6th , 2008.
So Save the Earth Already and Save Ourselves. Part of her "Symbiosis Lost???" Series. An installation with Figment Festival through October 12th, 2008 on Governors' Island, NY, NY (across from the Mini-Golf Course), the ferry is free and steps away from the Staten Isle ferry Access is on Fridays 10 to 5pm, Saturdays and Sundays 10 to 7pm.
Ms.Arnone's installation, made with found objects, surrealistically represents our human failing in dealing with the magnitude of the ecological problems of the world: energy shortage, over population, private ownership of water supplies, shortages of water, food and other natural resources, global warming, rapidly disappearing of species including the honey bees (which do the cross pollination for us), therefore upsetting the balance of nature, social choices based on monetary gain rather than survival of the species, etc. Much of this, according to scientific calculations, may be reaching the point of no return if we're not diligent.
REVIEWS:
"In postmodern, as in modern, abstract painting, much still depends on the intangible element of "touch"... Jeanette Arnone really puts touch to the test in a series of works consisting of one decisive gesture set against white expanses of paper. There is no room for error when Arnone lays down a few swift streaks or swirls with an impetuous yet controlled energy that suggests a self-styled Zen master. It is indeed an act of faith that demon-strates the ethos of abstraction at its most elemental and energy-based." Marie R. Pagano
"A fanciful eccentricity is the forte of Jeanette Arnone-K, whose acrylic painting "Main Course", depicting a long-in the-tooth fellow at table, apparently eating a dissected world, evoked satirical political connotations. Another painting of a deluge engulfing a city showed Arnone-K's visionary imagination at its most uninhibited." Peter Wiley
"Jeanette Arnone-K likes titles ...[which] accurately describe her lively, effusive compositions. Working in pastel or watercolor, Arnone-K takes a bold, rhythmical approach to form and her colors are correspondingly exuberant." J. Sanders Eaton
"Jeanette Arnone's work contributes elegance to the show with her pastel and watercolor pieces that contain calming colors and energetic movement of shapes that balance each other and create a spiritual feel." Pamela Flores
