Helen Oliver Adelson
Transcends at Howl! Happening Gallery
Howl! Happening Gallery is presenting Helen Oliver Adelson’s haunting paintings in an exhibit entitled The Road. Adelson is known for her large-scale portraits and landscapes. The pictures feel like they come from another dimension. The paintings create a surreal atmosphere or dream-like quality around each image and you know, at once, you are entering another realm. They are ghostly and erotic portraits that beckon to the viewer. Your take away from each drawing is an unsettling, uncovering of the subject that is unnerving yet beautiful. We love the bigness and confidence of Adelson’s brush strokes and the spirit she captures of each individual.
It would be great to interview some of the subjects including Lenny Kaye, her brother Edgar Oliver, Penny Arcade and many other downtown-denizens and know what transcended during the portrait sessions. Helen Oliver Adelson spoke of her paintings as “places, people, spirits – things real and imagined.”
Helen Oliver Adelson applies the same talent to creating stage and set designs for her brother, Edgar Oliver, and some of his plays at the La Mama Experimental Theater. Adelson has been a dominant force, since the late 70s, in the East Village art scene. She is also a founder of the Pompeii Gallery on East 10th Street in New York City. Enjoy The Road her work takes you on. The exhibition is a must-see, don’t miss it!
