Lambert Edelmann
C W O S ARTIST
Primary Medium: Printmaking
Other media: Paint
Neighborhood : Branford
Email: lambertedelmann (at) yahoo (dot) com
Artist Statement
My art is concerned with the struggle between building and decay, destruction to seek control, domination of nature by civilizations, and domination of cultures by other cultures. These struggles are represented in my art. While the monotype “Forest Edude #1” shown at the Paul Mellon Art Center focuses on the natural world, my art focuses also on the twofold nature of islamic civilization, both dominating and dominated.
My paintings and monoprints are inspired by the millennia old geometric patterns of Islam and the splendor of islamic art. Through them I wish to express the struggle of cultural growth, with its roots and its future. For example, the recent Arab spring can be seen as both a great opportunity and a threat to the traditional islamic culture. In my art the millennia old geometric designs are distorted and altered to revel the potential of new ways to look at the past without refusing it. I use bold colors and alter the lines of the rigid design to distort the perfection.
Other media: Paint
Neighborhood : Branford
Email: lambertedelmann (at) yahoo (dot) com
Artist Statement
My art is concerned with the struggle between building and decay, destruction to seek control, domination of nature by civilizations, and domination of cultures by other cultures. These struggles are represented in my art. While the monotype “Forest Edude #1” shown at the Paul Mellon Art Center focuses on the natural world, my art focuses also on the twofold nature of islamic civilization, both dominating and dominated.
My paintings and monoprints are inspired by the millennia old geometric patterns of Islam and the splendor of islamic art. Through them I wish to express the struggle of cultural growth, with its roots and its future. For example, the recent Arab spring can be seen as both a great opportunity and a threat to the traditional islamic culture. In my art the millennia old geometric designs are distorted and altered to revel the potential of new ways to look at the past without refusing it. I use bold colors and alter the lines of the rigid design to distort the perfection.
Selected Works
|  East meets West - 2011 - Oil and Acrylic on Fabriano paper - 30x41  Painted Sahara - 2011 - Oil and Acrylic on Fabriano paper - 30" x 41"  Tuareg Sky - 2011 - Oil and Acrylic on Fabriano paper - 30" x 41"  Reft and Light don't make a difference - 2011 - Oil and Acrylic on Fabriano paper - 30" x 41"  Up side down and, round and round - 2011 - Oil and Acrylic on Fabriano paper - 30" x 41"  Sophia - 2008 - intaglio - 11"x16"  Rolling Gems - 2011 - Etching and Pencil - 9" x 14"  Forest Etude No2 - 2010 - Monoprint - 22x30  Forest Etude No1 - 2010 - Monoprint - 22x30 |
Artist Bio
Lambert Edelmann studied printmaking with Rhoda Rosenberg and Liz Shepherd at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Selma Bromberg, Boston Printmakers; oil painting in Cambridge, MA; sculpture at Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT. He was born and raised in Germany, has a Ph.D. and studied Neurobiology at Yale. He lives and works in Boston, and has his studio in New Haven, CT, where he is part of the Erector Square art community and a member of The Arts Council of Greater New Haven.
Exhibitions
2011 Monotype Guild of New England, Juror: Anthony Kirk, Director of the Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT; Pall Mellon Arts Center, Wallingford, CT.
2011 110th Annual Juried Art Exhibition, New Haven Paint & Clay Club,
The John Slade Ely House, New Haven CT, Juried by Tom Yost
2009 Print + Paper, juried School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, bag gallery atrium
2008 1st Artspace's juried Artist-in-Residence Program exhibition, New Haven: Vladimir Shpitalnik, Professor in Illustration, Paier College of Art, Hamden
Christina Vassallo, Associate Director, Kinz, Tilouz & Fiegen, New York
2006 Interface II, City Gallery, New Haven, CT, curated by Sheila Kaczmarek
2005 56th Annual Art of the Northeast, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, Juried by Elizabeth Smith, Chief Curator Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art
2004 103rd Annual Juried Art Exhibition, New Haven Paint & Clay Club,
The John Slade Ely House, New Haven CT, Juried by Anna Held Audette, Prof. Of Art, S. Conn. State University
2002 On My Own Time, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
2001 On My Own Time, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
2008-2001 City-Wide Open Studios, New Haven, CT
Additional Information
Concurrent Exhibitions:
Art of the Unique Print
Paul Mellon Arts Cente
http://www.mgne.org/ChoateCFE.html
East meets West
Printerly Paintings
Christopher Martins
860 State St
New Haven CT 06511
http://www.christophermartins.com/special_events.html