 
Vita Brejner’s paintings break all the rules. With its raw yet detailed use of organic shapes, Brejner’s work picks up the expressionist tradition championed by DeKooning. Brejner’s twist is a jazzy, personal landscape which does not shy away from the suggestions of psychological trauma. Brejner relies on unpredictability, and her unique muse dances with the energy of improvisation. “The brush and paint lead the way,” she insists, and the result is an abstract primitivism, complete with totemic faces and half-seen tableaus emerging from backgrounds that vary between sinister and euphoric. Brejner says her paintings each hide a story, and her personal archaeology of the process uses the tools of emotional extremes and a liberty with color scheme. “I have to find that particular story,” Brejner says. Thick outlines and boundary-free shapes melt and collide, and despite, or perhaps because of, her embrace of a free-associative work process, the stories Brejner discovers in her paintings are viscerally defiant of category. She becomes not only the creator, but the first viewer of her art, offering the first interpretation. Vita Brejner’s wild inspiration is also fueled by the beauty and visual drama of Copenhagen, Denmark, where she lives and works.
In Pursuit of Abstraction
Reception:
Thursday May 10, 2007 6-8 PM
Exhibition Dates:
5/4/2007 - 5/24/2007
Invitation to
Vita Brejner's exhibition
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Neglected
Acrylic on Canvas
23.5" x 31.5"
$2300
Neglected
Acrylic on Canvas
23.5" x 31.5"
$2300
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SCARY - POETICAL?
Acrylic & Pastel
23.5" x 31.5"
$2300
SCARY - POETICAL?
Acrylic & Pastel
23.5" x 31.5"
$2300
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Romance and Evolution
Acrylic on Canvas
31.5" x 23.6"
$2300
Romance and Evolution
Acrylic on Canvas
31.5" x 23.6"
$2300
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Lyrical Art in Minor
Acrylic & Pastel
23.5" x 23.5"
$2000
Lyrical Art in Minor
Acrylic & Pastel
23.5" x 23.5"
$2000
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Dove of Peace
Acrylic & Pastel
23.5" x 31.5"
$2300
Dove of Peace
Acrylic & Pastel
23.5" x 31.5"
$2300
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Dying of Cancer
Acrylic & Oil on Canvas
23.5" x 31.5"
$2300
Dying of Cancer
Acrylic & Oil on Canvas
23.5" x 31.5"
$2300
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Fairytale
Acrylic on Canvas
23.5" x 31.5"
$2300
Fairytale
Acrylic on Canvas
23.5" x 31.5"
$2300
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