Salon St Denis

10/11/2017

Please join us tonight to celebrate a closing reception of Nadiya Jinnah's work "Connect-Ing Walls." Drink/snacks will be provided. :)

09/21/2017

09/14/2017

Recap of "Connect-Ing Walls" Reception. Thank you to everyone who came--the night was a great success! To see the current exhibition please email [email protected]

09/07/2017

Connecting-Ing Walls Series by Nadiya Jinnah

09/07/2017

Cosmic Series by Nadiya Jinnah

09/06/2017

Salon St Denis is pleased to announce the paintings of Nadiya Jinnah.
Nadiya Jinnah is a quad-continent Muslim of Indian heritage, born in East Africa. The artist was educated in England and consequently followed her dream and moved to New York where she experiences the great melting pot of people from many cultures and religions.
Unlike those early years, the artist finds that in today’s climate “What makes us unique and special has become means of separation and fear”. It’s similar to plate tectonics, to use a geological term and it acts as a signal analogous to those kinetic energies. George Kubler reasons in The Shape of Time /Remarks on the History of Things that “the rest of time emerges only in signals relayed to us by innumerable stages and by unexpected bearers these signals are like kinetic energy stored until the moments of notice when the mass descends along some portion of its path to the center of its gravitational system.”
We all have different stories to tell suggests Jinnah, yet we experience the same bundles of painful emotions and aspire similar goals to find peace, harmony, love, and abundance. These precious life experiences make us who we are, but unknowingly we create superficial walls of insecurity, hoping they will keep us safe. “
As Nadiya Jinnah tells her story, she found a way to connect the two disciplines of her education- painting, and sculpture: "I start with carving the clay then transfer the image to flexible acrylic. This process allows me to experience each piece in its Negative and Positive form. Within this process, I see my Dual Nature and find answers to clear my internal walls to be ONE with everyone and enjoy all that life has to offer physically and Spiritually."
Nadiya Jinnah’s painting invites us to experience the dust and ash of that cosmic storm which we call the present and which perpetually rages throughout creation. Her surfaces conjure the cosmic perforations of light and dark “Connect-Ing” both through the infinitesimal variations of surface play.
She asks us to “bring our stories that created walls of varied sizes, shapes, colors, and textures. Let us aim to connect them. Holding this attention and intention will help dissolve, disperse and clear these barriers just as the fog lifts to the TRUTH. ‘We are in everyone and everyone is in us’. There is no separation. We are all part of this beautiful tapestry of life connected in spirit as ONE.”

"Avalon-Guyot"
2011
39 x 63
Cast flexible acrylic with oils
Artist: Nadiya Jinnah

06/30/2017

Benjamin Genocchio Executive Director of Armory Show and Kate Shanley creator of Salon St Denis at Elizabeth Zans opening reception.

06/26/2017

Salon St. Denis is pleased to announce the paintings of Gerry Snyder and Kirsten Deirup. Both artists present the viewer with their own version of an inner landscape. But where Snyder’s surreal characters move in and out of dream-like vistas, Kirsten Deirup’s trees and masks oscillate between two and three-dimensional space. Snyder’s eroticized figures float in and out of the atmospheric layers of paint. Snyder sees “Painting as the living dead, a zombie lurching back to haunt us, sequel after sequel, a genre moving from art, to horror to humor and finally cliché. Yet never dying. Its continues to entertain while maintaining its market.”
Kirsten Deirup’s otherworldly representations of forms function in a pastiche reminiscent of Dorothea Tanning. These paintings are contemporary still life’s depicting accumulations of color with abstract forms and tree like forms. Deirup renders disjointed stage sets as portraiture that remain void of direct figuration. These works play upon the ineluctable flatness of the surfaces, Deirup’s irrational portraits invites confusion between two and three dimensions.

Snyder received a B.F.A. in Painting from the University of Oregon and an M.A. in Video Art from New York University. He has a steady exhibition record of both solo shows and group shows such as the 2002 Whitney Biennial and the 2004 Serbian Biennial. His work has been featured in museum collections such as the Whitney Museum of American Art and the de Young Museum of San Francisco as well as in numerous private collections.

Deirup’s paintings and works on paper have been exhibited widely in the US and her work is included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (NY, NY). She received a B.F.A. from Cooper Union School of Art (NY, NY) and currently works and lives in New York State.