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Connie Aronson
Connie Aronson has been painting and creating art for six decades. Over her career, she has won critical acclaim and drawn the attention of local and international collectors for her impressionistic paintings. Recurring themes for Aronson's vividly colorful paintings include the Provencal countryside, the shoreline of St. Tropez, the Scottish highlands, the rooftops of Paris, and the lake country in northern Italy. The selections in the present exhibition also include two self-portraits and a number of still-life studies of flower arrangements, including the delightful oil painting, "My Mother's Vase," featured on this page. Paintings featured in "Joy of Color" highlight Aronson's accomplished technique in use of gouache and Japanese paper, as well as oil works on canvas, masonite and paper. The explosive bursts of color in her paintings extend to the frames as well, which become integrated as part of the artistic work. Aronson began her artistic work as a teen-ager in Philadelphia, doing impressionistic watercolor renditions of Esquire magazine photographs. She pursued formal studies in art at the Philadelphia School of Industrial Art and Textile Design, the Art Student League, and the Isabelle O'Neill School in New York. Aronson widened the scope of her artistic work as she moved on to woodblock prints of New York City street scenes, sculptures of exotic animals, paintings of island women, and faux antique furniture pieces that have become valued collectibles. In recent years, her artistry has produced an explosion of pastels in her paintings that capture the essence of southern France in its sun-splashed glory. Among the artists who have influenced her work, Aronson cites Matisse, Van Gogh, Marsden Hartley, Georgia O'Keefe, and the German expressionists. Aronson has displayed selections from her works at previous shows in Como, Italy, and at the Oliver Wolcott Library in Litchfield, and during May will be opening a new show on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. She now carries on her artistic work, filled with wisps of color and light, in her adopted home region of Litchfield County. She currently lives with her husband, Herbert, in a 1799 farmhouse in Morris, Conn. |
