ELANA KUNDELL — PAINTED MUSIC
November 30 – December 28, 2011

Elana Kundell creates imaginary environments that are based on emotional rather than physical spaces. Music, playing a tremendously important role in her paintings, has been inspiration for her wishing to produce pure and transcendental art. By listening to music and emulating it in her work, she has discovered unconventional techniques in her art-creating approach. Working in oil on panel and also canvas, she develops the surfaces intuitively using knives, brushes, fingers, and cloth to form dense, intersecting layers. As a result her paintings occupy an ambiguous zone between what is seen and what is felt. 

REVIEW: SANTA BARBARA NEWS-PRESS 12-09-2011
ARTICLE: CASA MAGAZINES 12-09-2011