New Voices - New Visions

Eliza Bui, Teymur Guseynov, Ivy Jacobsen, Li Ma, Jeff Snell, Marie Van Elder

New Voices - New VisionsNew work by Bay Area Artists

Eliza BuiTeymur GuseynovIvy JacobsenLi MaJeff SnellMarie Van Elder

Marie Van Elder, Girl with BirdsOil collage on Canvas 50”x28”, $3400

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483 Magnolia Avenue, Larkspur, CA 94939

www.bergelli.com, 415-945-9454

Li Ma is currently working on her MFA in Painting at the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work is a diorama of an imaginative

world where landscape and cityscape blend into each other in an atmosphere of balance and harmony. The pictorial structure

and cheerful colors borrow from Buddhism, Taoism, traditional Chinese paintings and Asian architecture. The setting is based

on the traditional Chinese garden, which provides a panoramic view of space, a sense of timelessness, and uncovers the hidden

relationship between human and cosmos.

Eliza Bui is a recent graduate of San Jose State University’s Pictorial Art program. Inspired by Bay Area Figurative Move-

ment artist Diebenkorn, Eliza Bui developed a very strong interest in composition in her artwork. She uses various 2D materials

such as graphite, charcoal, oil paint, and silk screening. Bui’s interest is in the representation of distances. Distances can refer

to landscapes, the outreach of a possibility, moving mountains, or in actual miles. Her artwork shows the limitlessness between

representation and abstraction, composition and space.

Teymur Guseynov’s focus is on painting and ceramics, although fundamentally different from one another, working with

oils, as well as with clay, fascinates him as an artist. Open to experimentation, he lets the subconscious guide him, the results

are often unexpectedly satisfying in creating representational semi-abstract works with subtle hints of symbolism that in one

way or another echo his inner world. He is currently a senior undergraduate art practice major at UC Berkeley.

Marie Van Elder starts with the visually familiar and translates the seen through the personal lens and touch, infusing it

with psychological undertone and quiet contemplation, using references such as media images, girlhood memories, teen culture,

fairy tales, fashion, old masters paintings, collage etc…to explore endless possibilities of figurative painting.

Ivy Jacobsen strives to create a place of magical realism in her landscapes, balancing magical elements with real world

rendering of flora and fauna found in our natural world. She uses oil paint, bronzing powder, earth pigments, acrylic paint, resin,

and other mixed media on canvas and birch panel in creating her paintings. They are composed of many thin layers of glazes

slowly built up over time. Through the multiple semi-transparent layers all the colors are visible creating a glowing depth of field.

By painting the trees and plant forms in between the layers of glazes the forms begin to occupy various spaces in the foreground

and background, further creating the illusion of depth.

Jeff Snell’s paintings unite traditional landscapes and popular culture as vigorous abstract rhythms. Working with brush

and spray, Snell uses expressive gestures that incorporate a variety of forms found in nature and elements of urban flair. The

organic qualities of his subjects vacillate from flora to fauna, and the natural position and order of a landscape is challenged

in an unruly microcosm. His paintings radiate an energy and excitement that engage the viewer and offer a glimpse of nature’s

inner sanctum.

Girl and Thistles, Oil on Linen, 30”x24”, $2900

Girl and Pig (Red Shirt), Oil on Linen, 30”x24”, $2900

Girl and Pig, Oil on Linen, 30”x24”, $2900

Girl and Goats, Oil on Linen, 30”x24”, $2900

Peaceable Kingdom, Oil on Linen, 60”x48”, $4900

Marie Van Elder

Into Blue, Oil and Resin on Panel, 24”x48”, $2800

Birds Life, Oil on Panel, 36”x48”, $3400

Forest Glow, Oil on Panel, 12”x12”, $700

Smoke Bush 2, Oil and Bronzing Powder on Panel, 24”x12”, $1250

Ivy Jacobsen

Baby Animal Dream, Watercolor and Pencil on paper, 30”x20”, $1450

Snow Mountain, Acrylic Ink and Chinese Ink, 54”x35”, $2200

Li Ma

Elephant Tower, Sculpture is Wood and Thread and Acrylic; and Acrylic Ink on Paper mounted on Canvas, 10”x10”x32”, $2200

Coral Mountain, Acrylic Ink and Chinese Ink, 54”x35”, $2200

011912 6:22am, Oil on Canvas, 36”x48”, $800

05-29-12 7:45pm, Oil on Canvas, 30”x40”, $600

Eliza Bui

011812 4:32am, Oil on Canvas, 36”x48”, $800

120211 12:35pm, Oil on Canvas, 36”x48”, $800

Untitled, Oil on Canvas, 12”x16”, $800

Different, Oil on Canvas, 12”x16”, $800

Teymur Guseynov

Dream, Oil on Canvas Board, 9”x12”, $750

Forest Temple, Acrylic and Enamel on Canvas, 48”x60”, $2500

Jeff Snell

Canyon, Acrylic and Enamel on Canvas, 48”x60”, $2450

© 2013 Gallery Bergelli. All rights reserved. 483 Magnolia Avenue, Larkspur, CA 94939, www.bergelli.com, 415-945-9454

New Voices – New Visions is made possible in part by the generous support of

Lori Saia Odisio of Decker Bullock Sotheby’s International Realty, the Women

Leadership and Philanthropy Council of Dominican University of California, and

Stanly T. Gray of Meridian Surveying Engineering Inc.