7 1/2" high x 5 1/2" wide

Framed to 14 1/2" x  12 1/8 " in white front edge maple frame with double thick white mat

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This intimately scaled work on paper is the continuation of a series begun by the artist in Italy in 1997. The paintings depict intricate patterns of swirling lines intermingled with ephemeral yet often striking washed of color. Much like Grassi's larger works in oil on canvas, this sensuous, abstract imagery is repeated in multiple translucent layers of paint - creating a densely woven texture of light and color.

Neysa Grassi, a recipient of a Pew Fellowship, has had solo exhibitions at several museums, including the Pensacola Art Museum, FL and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, PA. Since 1990 the artist has had over 18 one-person exhibitions in galleries in Philadelphia and New York. Grassi is currently a critic in the Masters of Fine Arts program at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Knots of paint which reveal little contrast criss-cross Neysa Grassi’s paintings. These conduits are highways, nerve bundles, twisted knots of tissue, clotted vessels, or clogged freeways. They might be carrying messages — perhaps urgent ones — but their paths are complicated by contradiction and confusion. One imagines a sensation trying to travel through the gnarled miasma of paint which Grassi has woven in a typical picture. The sensation of a burn travels from finger tip to brain, shooting back a message of danger at light-speed over an impossibly complex network. But these hints of speed and complexity are contrasted against the primitive bluntness of Ms. Grassi’s paintings. The antithesis of action painting, Ms. Grassi’s pictures might almost constitute stasis painting; preferring the deliberate and slow to the gestural suggestion of kinesthesis. Ms. Grassi received a certificate from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She has been included in several group and solo exhibitions locally and regionally, including a Challenge Exhibition at the Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, and the Biennial ’93 at the Delaware Art Museum, and exhibitions at Paul Cava Gallery, Momenta Art Alternatives, Levy Gallery at Moore College of Art and Design, and the Beaver College Art Gallery. Her work is included in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Telefax, Bell of Pennsylvania, and Blue Cross of Pennsylvania. 

This is a beautiful painting by Naysa Grassi.  It is immensely interesting and is one of her best small works.

Neysa Grassi is regarded as a well established artist. She was born in 1951. Also born in 1951 and of this same generation are Jozef Franko, Ding Deyuan, Gilles Boogarts, Willem Boshoff, and Richard Stone.

Born in 1951, Neysa Grassi's creative work was predominantly influenced by the 1970s. The 1970s were a period of consolidation and progress in the arts, most often characterized as a response to the central strains of the previous decade. Conceptual art developed as a influential movement, a partial evolution of and response to minimalism.  

Art took the artwork into the expansive outdoors, taking creative production away from commodities and engaging with the earliest ideas of environmentalism. Process art combined elements of conceptualism with other formal considerations, creating mysterious and experimental bodies of work. Expressive figurative painting began to regain importance for the first time since the decline of Abstract Expressionism twenty years before, especially in Germany where Gerhard Richter, Anselm Kiefer, Georg Baselitz became highly influential figures worldwide. 

International movements gained prominence included feminism, which translated strongly into the visual culture.

Neysa Grassi’s paintings consist of multiple layers of paint that have been applied, scarred, concealed, wiped out, and covered again. As she begins her ideas in the studio, Grassi makes gouache and mixed media paintings and monotypes. These works on paper range from a more spontaneous energy to the calculated meditative abstractions she is known for in oils. Neysa Grassi is a faculty critic in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts’ Post Baccalaureate and MFA programs.

Public Collections include:

Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, USA

Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State University, PA, USA

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, PA, USA

Biography:

Neysa Grassi Biography 1951   Born in Philadelphia, PA 1973   Certificate, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA 1982   Edith Emerson Prize, Woodmere Art Museum Annual 1987   Philadelphia Museum of Art Award, Cheltenham Annual 1993   Pew Fellowships in the Arts, Disciplinary Winner, Painting 1994   Pew Fellowships in the Arts, Painting 1998   Fellowship, The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, County Mayo, Ireland 1998   Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Works on Paper Fellowship 2007   Residency, Fundacion Valparaiso, Mojacar, Spain Selected Exhibitions 2011   Rose Gatherer (2001-2011), Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (solo) 2008   Neysa Grassi, Losing and Finding, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (solo) 2007   Contemporary Art on Paper, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA 2006   Neysa Grassi, Ex Cathedra, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (solo) 2006   Faculty Exhibiton, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA 2004   University of Delaware, Newark, DE (solo) 2003   Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (solo) 2003   Vermont Studio Center Prints, Plum Gallery, Williamstown, MA 2002   List Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA (solo) 2002   Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (solo) 2002   Pure, Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art, Philadelphia, PA 2002   Transcendent and Unrepentant, Rosenwald - Wolf Gallery, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA 2001   Morris Gallery, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA (solo) 2001   Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL (solo) 2001   Céide Fields, Céide Interpretative Center, Ireland 2001   Imaging Judaism, Susquehanna Museum of Art, Harrisburg, PA 2000   Neysa Grassi, Night Paintings, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA (solo) 2000   The Ray Graham Collection, The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM 1999   Neysa Grassi, Dissolver, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (solo) 1999   Contemplation, Abington Art Center, Abington, PA 1999   Engaging Abstraction, Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery, Lebanon Valley College, 1999   Ballinglen Experience, Glucksman Ireland House, New York University, New York, NY 1999   Images from North Mayo, Ballycastle, County Mayo, Ireland 1998   Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY (solo) (also: 1995, 1993) 1998   Charles Demuth Foundation, Lancaster, PA (solo) 1998   Faculty Exhibit, Levy Gallery, Moore College of Art and Design 1997   Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1997   Intimate Universe (Revisited), Robert Steele Gallery, New York, NY 1996   Neysa Grassi: Recent Paintings, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (solo) 1996   Looking East, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR 1996   The Small Painting, O'Hara Gallery, New York, NY 1996   Natural Process, Williams Center for the Arts, Lafayette College, Easton, PA; traveled to Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA 1995   Grassi, Haney, Heeks, Maynard, Murphy, Nazarewycz, Haney, Heeks, Ma, Larry Becker Contemporary Art Philadelphia, PA 1994   Paul Cava Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (solo) (also: 1993, 1991) 1994   Contemporary Women Artists, Freyberger Gallery, Pennsylvania State University, Reading, PA 1994   Littlejohn/Sternau Gallery New York, NY 1994   14 at 55: Recent Painting from Philadelphia, 55 Mercer Street, New York, N.Y. 1993   Patterns on Paper, Main Line Center for the Arts, Bryn Mawr, PA 1993   Delaware Art Museum '93 Biennial, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE 1993   Ritual and Response: Abstract Painting 1993, Hicks Art Center, Bucks County Community College, Newtown, PA 1992   In the Realm of Monochrome, Levy Gallery, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA 1992   Works on Paper, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA 1991   Momenta Art Alternatives, Philadelphia, PA 1991   The Next Show, The Gallery at the State Theater Center for the Arts, Easton, PA 1990   Challenge Exhibition, Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA (solo) 1990   Works on Paper, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA 1990   Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA 1989   IV Artists, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA 1989   Myth/Symbol/Dream, Structures of the Unconscious, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE 1989   Allentown Museum 21st Annual Show, Allentown, PA 1989   Fellowship Show, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA 1987   46th Annual Juried Exhibition, Cheltenham Art Center, Cheltenham, PA 1987   Honoring Women Artists, Camden County Cultural Association, Camden, NJ 1986   Contemporary Philadelphia Painting, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA 1986   20th Annual Exhibition, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA 1986   45th Annual Exhibition, Cheltenham Art Center, Cheltenham, PA 1986   46th Annual Exhibition, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA 1986   Annual Fellowship Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ See all our other listings of fine art,  antique, vintage racquets and other items at: http://stores.ebay.com/Gemlure