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"Tree Watching IV," a 36-by-24 inch oil on canvas by New Carlisle artist Jean Koeller.
Jean Koeller’s paintings mix abstraction, nature
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By Pamela Dillon,
Contributing Writer
Updated 1:07 AM Sunday, June 13, 2010
Columbus may be 75 miles away, give or take a few depending on where you live, but the works of a local artist on display at a Columbus gallery may be worth the drive.
The dual exhibit “Nature and Abstraction” by New Carlisle artist Jean Koeller and “The Quiet Landscape” by Columbus artist Kelly Moody are on display at the Keny Galleries in Columbus.
“I do think that Jean and Kelly’s paintings complement one another,” said gallery co-owner Tim Keny. “They both have a sense of reverie linked with nature. However, Jean’s paintings are more painterly and abstract than Kelly’s, which are more tightly rendered and banded compositionally into patterns.”
Koeller is presenting 24 oil landscapes and still lifes created over the past two years. For this show, influences from trips to France, Italy and India intermingle with nearby views from land around her home. She was inspired to paint a still life in the show, “Artist Palette,” when a close friend of hers sent her a bouquet of flowers. With an artist’s eye, Koeller envisioned the colors as a painting, and placed the bouquet directly on her palette. “Pine View” is beautifully rendered oil on canvas landscape that transports the viewer into the scene itself.
“I love this low point of view, it’s close to the ground and more what an animal would see; embracing the earth which is where all the life is coming from,” Koeller said. “When you are closer to the ground you smell the earth, pines also have a wonderful scent as the sun heats up.”
Koeller is a highly respected and well-known regional artist, who has had one/two person exhibitions locally at Dayton Visual Arts Center, Upstairs at the Greenwich in Cincinnati and Franklin Parks Conservatory in Columbus, among others. She holds a bachelor’s degree in fine art from Wright State University and a master’s degree in fine art from the Parsons School of Art and Design in New York. Awards include grants from Ohio Arts Council, Montgomery County Arts and Cultural District and an outstanding alumni award from WSU. She has many public collections, including at the Ohio Supreme Court and the Ohio Governor’s Mansion. Koeller has also shown her work in New Mexico, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, Illinois, Kentucky and Pennsylvania.
“Jean Koeller’s paintings evoke a palpable sense of place with their subtle nuances of light and atmosphere. One admires the gestural fluidity of her paint handling, the dynamic vantage points, evocative use of color and inventively unified compositions,” Keny said. “Her paintings are as much about the creative process of painting as they are the accurate depiction of nature.”
Contact contributing arts writer Pamela Dillon at pamdillon@woh.rr.com.
How to go
What: “Nature and Abstraction” by Jean Koeller
Where: Keny Galleries, 300 E. Beck St., Columbus
When: Continues through July 16
More info: (614) 464-1228 or www.kenygalleries.com
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