She She

August
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August 24, 2025
RECEPTION:
August 1, 2025
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4–7PM

Beth

Reisman

Donna

Tadelman

25-06
Abstract painting by Beth Reisman
Beth Reisman, Black and Blue, acrylic on canvas, 30 x 30 in, 2021

About the exhibition

She She brings together the vibrant abstract works of Beth Reisman and Donna Tadelman—two painters whose practices share a deep commitment to color, precision, and visual complexity. The exhibition frames a dialogue between two distinct but harmonizing voices in contemporary abstraction. Both artists explore the layered possibilities of surface and structure, creating works that are as rigorous as they are playful, as intimate as they are formal.

Beth Reisman's paintings evoke a natural, almost biological rhythm through their flowing forms and richly layered color fields. Drawing from wood grain patterns as a starting point, her compositions build upon intuitive selections and internal geometries, arriving at images that feel both organic and intentional.

Donna Tadelman’s paintings contrast with a geometric language rooted in grids, stripes, and rectilinear forms. Her compositions are animated by bold juxtapositions of hue, scale, and texture, revealing an intuitive logic that echoes musicality or pattern-based systems. While her approach is more architectural, it retains a deep sense of improvisation and material joy. Whether layering commercial paint chips or orchestrating color blocks across a round or rectangular canvas, Tadelman’s works invite the viewer to consider movement, variation, and precision as expressions of emotional depth and visual play.

Together, these two bodies of work create a resonant interplay—parallel explorations of abstraction that reflect a shared commitment to thought-provoking composition and vibrant presence.

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About the Artist

Beth

Reisman

Beth Reisman has had solo exhibitions at David Castillo Gallery in Miami, Deven Golden Fine Art in New York and Galerie Faurschou in Copenhagen. Among her various group exhibitions are the Lennon Weinberg Gallery, NYC, Brooklyn Museum of Art, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Galerie La Forest Divonne, Paris, and the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art in NYC. She is the recipient of a Pollock/Krasner artist grant and residencies at Yaddo. Her work is in various private and corporate collections, including the Progressive Corporation, JP Morgan Chase Bank and the Elmhurst Museum of Art. Reisman received a B.A. from Clark University, B.F.A. from Tyler School of Art, Phila., PA and a M.F.A. from the Art Institute of Chicago. She lives in Jackson Heights, Queens and works in Long Island City and Margaretville, New York.

Donna

Tadelman

Donna Tadelman (born 1952) has been a Chicago based painter. Initially self-taught, she received formal training in painting and drawing at the Kansas City Art Institute (KCAI) in the early 1970s. From the 1970s through the early 2000s, she focused on representational work with an emphasis on color. In 2006, she took a decade-long break from painting, returning in 2016 with a major shift in both medium and style. Abandoning oil paint and still lifes, she embraced water-based materials and began exploring abstraction. Between 2017 and 2025, Tadelman experimented with new techniques, resulting in a diverse body of abstract work. Her later pieces range from reductive yet painterly stripe paintings to color-focused cuboid compositions and mixed-media works using unusual materials such as commercial paint samples and unfolded boxes as readymade painting supports. Her evolving style reflects the full arc of her artistic journey across decades.

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