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Eleanor Stride

"Eleanor Stride: Relationships"
March 26, 2009 - April 23, 2009
Reception:
Thursday, April 23rd (6 - 8 pm)

"Relationships, Rapport, is the affinity between things, the common language, rapport is love, yes love. Without rapport, without this love there is no longer any criterion of observation and therefore there is no longer any work of art."            -Henry Matisse

AES Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of works by Eleanor Stride. The exhibition will feature a prodigious series of bas-reliefs and small sculptures inspired by subway scenes of New York City.

Eleanor was born and raised in the south of France by her parents, Jeffery and Sally Stride; two devoted and internationally recognized landscape painters. Eleanor's passion for sculpture led her from art school in England to the Institut Nationale des Arts in Bamako, Mali and to the Accademia di Belle Arti in Bologna, Italy where she studied for five years. Then the Greek National Academy invited her to spend a year in Athens as an Erasmus Scholar. She was awarded her MFA in 2008 after a further two years study as a scholarship student at the New York Studio School.

Eleanor has a passion for making art out of the everyday life that surrounds her. Her present work is based on subway scenes of New York and features sculptures and reliefs in terracotta, plaster, fiberglass and resin. The collection of reliefs focuses on the relationships of the human figure to an urban or subterranean environment in an effort to combine the subject matter with the abstract values of sculptural form.

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