Healing Power of Art Award
18 October 2022
I am pleased to have been selected to receive a Special Recognition Art Award from “The Healing Power of ART: Resilience 2022” exhibition.
Following are excerpts from the article by curator Renee Phillips:
“As the curator of the exhibition, I was immediately impressed by the artists’ use of innovation and talent to create multi-faceted art that is beautiful and engaging and also profoundly thought-provoking. Through the use of ingenuity, metaphor and symbolism, they remind us that art can be a powerful communication tool that can raise our awareness. To me, those are important characteristics of the best works of art.”
Elynne Rosenfeld ~ Paulownia Paintings are Metaphors for Resilience
“Elynne Rosenfeld is an artist from Conshohocken, Pennsylvania and is very active in the Philadelphia art community. She has also served as past president of the New York-based advocacy group Artist’s Equity and co-chaired ArtForms cooperative gallery for a decade. She has also served as First Vice President of ARTsisters, a group of professional artists who empower each other and the community through art.
Elynne has had more than 20 solo exhibitions and over 100 group shows. She is the recipient of numerous awards for painting excellence including those from Manhattan Arts International. You will find her artwork in many public and private collections around the world.”
“When Elynne submitted her extraordinary entries to “The Healing Power of ART: Resilience” competition she wrote: “In May 2020 while walking a quarantine – safe path I found lovely purple flowers poking through the chain link fence of an abandoned factory. I photographed these and began to paint them, learning later that they are paulownia flowers, considered invasive, and that these trees grow randomly in unplanned landscape. It’s been my mission since to paint these, amid broken glass and beads, their own resilience a metaphor for what we have survived and continue to experience going forward.”
She added, “Aside from the obvious resilience booster that creating art has always been for me, painting my ‘Invasive Beauty’ series kept me hopeful that the art would one day again be something people would experience in person. The online shows and social media where my paintings were featured gave others something visually positive to experience while waiting for the new normal to occur.”