Ilana Manolson
“…I return to locate myself and recharge my spirit…”
Yupo: Japanese tree-free, non-porous, acid-free, pH-neutral synthetic paper.
What We Preserve, acrylic on yupo, 60 x 76 inches (152.5 x 193 cm), unframed, $6000 Cdn.
Lady Slipper, acrylic on yupo, 14x11 inches (35.5 x 28 cm), framed, $2000 Cdn.
Fireweed, acrylic on yupo, 14x11 inches (35.5 x 28 cm), framed, note image shot under glass, $2000 Cdn.
Swamp Walker, acrylic on yupo, 11x14 inches (28x35.5 cm), framed, $2000 Cdn.
Underfoot, acrylic on yupo, 11x14 inches (28x35.5 cm), framed, note image shot under glass, $2000 Cdn.
What We Choose, acrylic on yupo mounted on wood panel, 10.75 x 36 inches (27.5 x 91.5 cm), $3300 Cdn.
Time: In The Mountains, collage and acrylic on yupo mounted on wood panel, 73 x 59.5 inches (185.5 x 151 cm), $7000 Cdn.
Schumann Resonance I, acrylic on yupo, 30 x 364 inches (76 x 925 cm), unframed, $16,400 Cdn.
Schumann Resonance II, acrylic on yupo, 30 x 255 inches (76 x 648 cm), unframed, $16,400 Cdn.
The Rocky Mountains of Western Canada are the touchstone where I return to locate myself and recharge my spirit. They are my birthplace, the site of my first job as a naturalist, and the location of my first residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts.
Ilana Manolson strives to capture the different heartbeats of the earth over time. Her paintings emerge from her own direct observations while painting, hiking, and working in the Rocky Mountains, particularly in the vicinity of Lake O’Hara. Nonetheless, she paints from memory in her studio to capture the tumultuous energy of place in disparate timeframes expressed through water and stone. As a result, the works are visually confounding, expansive, and evocative of an underlying philosophical stance recognizing the essential flux of life.
Each artwork is a synthesis of varied experiences from different times and places, capturing the artist's moments of observation, absorption, and discovery.
Ilana Manolson is a Canadian- born painter, printmaker and naturalist. She has had over 30 solo exhibitions of her work, and her work has been included in over 100 group exhibitions. Her most recent one-person exhibitions were at the Jason McCoy Gallery in New York and the Cadogan Contemporary Gallery in London. Her most recent shows in Canada were at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies (Banff, Alberta), Toronto International Arts Fair and at the Nicola Rukaj Gallery in Toronto. She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design. In addition to the galleries mentioned above, her work has been exhibited at many galleries and museums including the Tufts University Art Gallery, the Danforth Museum of Art, the De Cordova Museum, Fuller Museum, Boston Public Library, Endicott College, Ballin Castle Museum, Regis College, Gordon College, the Clark Gallery, the Howard Yezerski Gallery, and the Galeria Espacio Abierto (Havana, Cuba).