ELEANOR
GILPATRICK
Bio:
Eleanor Gilpatrick is a second-career, representational artist who primarily paints landscapes and the figure, with an occasional still life or abstract. She works in acrylic on canvas.
After a 30+ year detour as a professor in the School Of Health Sciences at Hunter College, CUNY, in New York City, authoring four books, directing a master's program, and pioneering courses in critical thinking and writing, Gilpatrick returned to her first love, painting. Her mentors have been Gabriele Evertz and Bob Swain.
Gilpatrick paints strong, romantic landscapes set in New York and places she has traveled to in the US and Europe. She is influenced by the 19th Century sensibility of Turner and The Hudson River School, but expresses a 21st Century "take" with vigorous brushwork and frequent visual tension between manmade constructions and the "sublime" elements of sky and water. The work with the figure looks at people in motion at a moment in time, absorbed in the activity of their daily lives. A modern colorist, she expresses an affirmation of life with an occasional hint of the solitary.
Gilpatrick has had annual solo shows at the Jadite Galleries, 513 west 50th Street, Manhattan since 2003. She has been accepted in many juried shows, and the list continues to grow. A profile dealing with the development of her palette was featured in the November, 2002, issue of American Artist Magazine. Gilpatrick's triptych dealing with Hunter College students is on loan to Hunter College. Updates of Gilpatrick's work and shows appear at her website: www.GilpatrickArt.com.
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Eleanor's work can be viewed on the web at the following links:
GilpatrickArt.com
Jadite Gallery
Manhattan
Arts - I Love Manhattan competition
Westport Arts Center
