"There is a harmony in autumn, and a lustre in its sky."-Percy Bysshe Shelley
Roads and Intersections have always been part of my aerialscapes, these are just a few. As seen from above the highways become the linear and circular design elements of the painting. They are the focus of the composition which takes you through the painting. Reduced to linear motion, details are contrasted by the use of green and gray.
Looking Down in Toronto
Dubai Roadways
Interchange with Garden
Jeanette & Maribeth, 24" x 36"
Jeanette & Maribeth and Mom & Eva, received Special Merit awards in Light SpaceTime Art Gallery’s Figurative Exhibition.
My figurative painting collection, many based on old family photographs, others from the present, offer a stylized impression of different periods and subjects.
All paintings that are available can be seen and purchased at tonisart.
Several paintings received Merit Awards in Art Room’sStill life exhibition. While the colors and shapes of these are traditional, the oversized proportions seen from above display the subject in a way that is both original and recognizable. The originals are all 16" x 16".
Quiche with Apples
Assorted Chocolates
Cheeseburger and Fries
Installations is an ongoing section on my website. It has photographs of my work shown in various real-life settings, both residential and corporate.
Installation views of Social Abstraction at Haines Gallery. Photos: Robert Divers Herrick
Lena Wolff is an artist, craftswoman, and activist for democracy whose interdisciplinary practice merges craft traditions with geometric abstraction, feminist, and political art. Her works are currently on view at Haines in the group exhibition Social Abstraction, through October 29, 2022.
Drawing from American quilt iconography—a medium steeped in history and political potential—Wolff investigates the transformative power of shape and symbol. In each work, geometrically-derived quilting patterns, passed down and shared for generations are combined with natural and cosmic imagery, as well as the artist’s own symbols for democracy, equality, and justice—an index of a shared visual language and a vision of a more just future.
"I wanted to walk in the footsteps of these makers who came before me, and make work that felt less individual and more part of a collective body of iconography."
Wolff composes the hand-cut paper collage Circular Path, variation #3 through the improvised, irregular repetition of a single form, enacting the work of quilt-makers, while Cabinet replicates a sampler quilt, with 56 uniquely patterned squares. Her wall-hung wood sculptures, based on the eight-pointed star pattern, combine the woodworking techniques of marquetry, parquetry and inlay.
Wolff is a recent recipient of the Kala Art Institute Artist Fellowship. A Pattern Language (variation #1), 2022, on view at Kala through September 30 in the exhibition Forever Was Never Till Now, comprises 72 unique concrete squares. Through its form and material, this concrete "quilt" upends associations of masculinity and femininity, craft and art, the interior and exterior.
Lena Wolff’s has been exhibited and collected by museums including the Berkeley Art Museum, CA; Cleveland Clinic, OH; de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA; Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin, CA; Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA; Oakland Museum of California, CA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; and Mathis Art Gallery at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI, among others. Her works are currently on view in the exhibitions Forever Was Never Till Now at the Kala Art Institute, and Hella Feminist at the Oakland Museum of California.
