A handful of seascapes by Edward Minoff were included in the group show "By the Sea" that opened on March 24, 2011 at Gardner Colby Gallery in Naples. Each captures the sea's power, expansiveness and alluring beauty in a way that puts the viewer on the beach which, of course, is the artist's goal. "My hope is that [the viewer] will feel the warmth of the light, hear the crash of the waves and smell the salty sea air as the painting fills [his or her] view," Minoff says.
While Minoff accomplishes his objective even with smaller paintings, it is clearly easier to fill a spector's view and overwhelm his senses with a large scale work. This is precisely what Minoff did in 2009 when he unveiled the 40 x 96 inch Waves at Cavalier Galleries in Greenwich, Connecticut. According to the just-released edition of American Art Collector magazine (Vol. 67, May, 2011), Minoff has outdone himself with a triptych done on 3 foot square canvas panels that he has titled Selene.
According to American Art Collector, it is Minoff's most ambitious seascape yet. "The painting depicts a single, long wave building across two panels and beginning to roll over itself in the third, hinting at the passage of time," Minoff told American Art Collector. "The moon hangs low over the water in one panel, the light dimming across the other two panels."
By breaking the composition into three separate panels, Minoff makes it appear that the spectator is viewing the scene through a bank of windows separated one from the other by dark vertical risers. "It serves as a device to break up the strong horizontals of the shoreline and horizon with the verticals of the canvas edges," Minoff suggests.
The triptych takes its name from the fact that Minoff has painted his wave under the spell of the light of a full moon. In that respect, Selene is similar to Moon, a 16 x 23 inch oil that sold even before the opening reception thrown by Gardner Colby Gallery for its "By the Sea" group exhibition.
Three of the six Minoff seascapes included in "By the Sea" are still available. "Great young artists such as Edward do not come along very often," says Ron Cavalier of Cavalier Galleries, echoing a sentiment voiced in March by Gardner Colby owner Nancy Welch and gallery director Pamela Campe. Which means that anyone interested in acquiring a work by this young master should act quickly.
For more information about the Minoff works currently on display at Gardner Colby Gallery should contact Pamela Campe at 239-403-7787.
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