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Debi Pendell

acrylic & mixed media/canvas 12.25 in x 12.25 in (4, each 6x6)
acrylic & mixed media/board 8 in. x 10 in.
acrylic & mixed media/canvas 30 in x 30 in
acrylic & mixed media/canvas 18 in x 24 in
acrylic & mixed media/canvas 18 in x 24 in
acrylic & mixed media/canvas 30 in x 30 in
acrylic & mixed media/board 16 in x 20 in
Artist Statement:
Debi Pendell prefers not to “talk” about her work. Visual art is it’s own language and is experienced and understood nonverbally. When words are used to describe it, the experience is distorted. Even so, she admits that some “talk” is often helpful.

Pendell concentrates on abstract artistic elements (color, shape, line, texture, composition, space) and her content and emotion emerge without any special attention or effort. She plays with symbols and how we “read” them and make meaning from them. Her works explore space: both actual, physical space and the illusion of space. Juxtapositions and relationships are core to her art. One main internal drive in Pendell’s work is her love of beauty; an idiosyncratically defined beauty. She works in several series simultaneously, and each can look quite different from the others.
Biography:
Born in Connecticut, Debi Pendell currently lives and works in the Eclipse Mill in North Adams, MA (www.eclipsemill.com). Her work is represented by Kolok Gallery in North Adams MA. She holds a B.A from Central Connecticut State University and an M.A.L.S from Wesleyan University, Connecticut. Pendell is a 1999 recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship Grant from the Greater Hartford Arts Council. She participated in CowParade 2000 in New York City, an event in which more than 500 life-sized fiberglass cows, painted by various artists, were displayed throughout the 5 boroughs; Pendell's was on Broadway. In 2007 Pendell was granted a 5-week artist residency in Bulgaria by the Griffis Foundation of New London, CT and the Orpheus Foundation of Sofia, Bulgaria.

Pendell's work is in the permanent collections of The District Art Gallery and Museum, Smolyan, Bulgaria; OppenheimerFunds Inc., New York, NY, Sheppard Pratt Health System in Baltimore MD, The D'Amour Center for Cancer Care in Springfield, MA, and, in Connecticut, St. Francis Hospital, Hartford Hospital, Naugatuck Valley Technical Community College, Hamilton Sundstrand and West Woods School, along with several private collectors in the United States, Canada and Germany.

Pendell's work has been exhibited in Bulgaria at the Palace of Culture in the capital city of Sofia and The District Art Gallery & Museum in Smolyan, as well as in many galleries in the Northeast United States, including: The Gallery at the Pen & Brush, New York NY; Mass Mutual in Springfield MA; Young & Constantin Gallery in Wilmington, VT; The Eclipse Gallery and Kolok Gallery, both in North Adams MA, Ferrin Gallery in Pittsfield, MA, Gallery 100, Saratoga Springs NY, and, in Connecticut, SmallSpace Gallery at the Arts Council of Greater New Haven, The Promenade Gallery at The Bushnell in Hartford, 100 Pearl Street Gallery in Hartford, The Norman Stevens Gallery at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, and the Zilkha Gallery at Wesleyan University in Middletown.

Debi Pendell has a solo show at Gallery 51 in North Adams, MA running July 30 through August 23, 2009.

Pendell teaches classes and workshops - mixed media collage; drawing; acrylic painting; and papier mache sculpture, masks & vessels - for both adults and children in various locations in Connecticut and Massachusetts. Debi Pendell's work can be viewed on her website, www.debipendell.com, in her Eclipse Mill studio, and at Kolok Gallery in North Adams MA.
Artist Website:
www.debipendell.com
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