Hobby Greenhouse, Summer 2006
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The Boston Globe, August 8, 1985
Critic’s Tip
“Boston painter Tamara Elizabeth Krendel has a reputation for lovingly detailed watercolors of greenhouse interiors. Krendel, who has painted greenhouses in America and Europe, recently spent a year painting some of the most beautiful examples in New England, capturing the way light shining through the glass affects the colors of delicate petals and leaves. Krendel’s work is on view through Aug. 30 in the Hunnewell Visitors Center of the Arnold Arboretum on the Arborway in Jamaica Plain.”
–Christine Temin
The Boston Globe, Friday, May 10, 1985
CRITICS’ CHOICE
“Paintings Through Glass Houses – Tamara Elizabeth Krendel recently spent a year painting watercolors in New England Greenhouses. At the Hunnewell Visitors Center, Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, through August 30.”
-Robert Taylor
Art Matters. VOL.6-NO.9 JUNE ’87
Exhibitions In Sight, by Burton Wasserman
“Chrysanthemum Greenhouse in Morning Light,” by Tamara Krendel at Widner thru June.
“Variations of human form and many different flowers all figure quite prominently in the two solo offerings currently on view (through June 27) at the Art Museum of Widener University in nearby Chester. Specifically, they consist of paintings by Tamara Krendel in which colorful blossoms appear repeatedly, and sculptures by Anne Oldach in plaster, fiberglass and bronze, embodying 3D presences with such titles as “Mountain Child,” “Wood Nymph” and “Walking Man.”
Dealing directly with subjects as diverse as rhododendrons, delphiniums and day lilies, Krendel exercises considerable poetic license, freely transforming the shape of growing plants and botanical settings in which they’re found into oil and watercolor compositions rippling with light and patterns of excitement. Poetic transcriptions of her most naked perceptions, these pictures are not observations based on external realities as much as they are playful inventions; inspired composites of jewel-like incandescence, sparkling vitality and imaginative joy.
Most interesting of all Krendel’s designs based upon greenhouse interiors. Powerful images in which the perspectives are suggested by the architectural construction are counterpointed by a profusion of assorted plant forms. They manifest an offbeat balance of agitated vitality and earthy strength.”
-Burton Wasserman
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Hobby Greenhouse, Vol. 11 No. 2, Spring 1989 Noted Massachusetts Artist Paints Pictures of Greenhouse Interiors “Gordon College in Wenham, MA, recently hosted an exhibition of paintings by Tamara Elizabeth Krendel whose superb paintings of European and American greenhouse have earned her an international following. On exhibit were twenty of Ms. Krendel’s recent works in both oil and watercolor including both greenhouse interiors and gardens. Two 48” x 38” oil paintings of greenhouse interiors were a glorious rendition of the sight we all long for when opening the door to our greenhouses. The array of flowering plants was captured in glowing, bold colors and shapes. The greenhouse benches and other paraphernalia were depicted in strong, solid strokes that conveyed their structural integrity. You could feel the plants growing in the light that poured through the glass roof. Two watercolors were of particular interest since they were of night scenes in a greenhouse. How many of us have gone into our greenhouses at night for a last check and seen the outlines and subdued colors of our plants and flowers in the dusky light with the sky above? Ms. Krendel has faithfully painted this picture to evoke the same feeling of a mysterious vibrant plant world waiting for the dawn. Ms. Krendel’s paintings are realistic in that particular plants-orchids, streptocarpus, etc.-are readily identifiable; however, she has achieved this realism with bold, controlled strokes and a minimum of fussy detail. The result is that the plants live and their delicate beauty is felt as well as seen. Space, atmosphere, and perspective are achieved with the good structural shapes of the greenhouse and equipment. In the artist’s statement she says: “I paint from direct observation choosing a subject which intrigues and captivates me, and choosing a period of light which evokes the particular spirit of the place or subject. “I work for stretches of light no more than three hours on each painting. In some cases returning to catch the same period of light for time periods of several months, and in others, of several years. While painting, I remain as receptive as possible to the feeling and physicality of the place or subject. As things change and grow with the light over time within the particular setting, they affect and alter the structural variables within the painting and the perceived reality is established. In this way I am able to get closer to the mysterious spirit and poetry of light and place.” Ms. Krendel studied painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Belgium, the University of Pennsylvania where she received her MFA, and at Yale University. She has had numerous exhibits and her paintings hang in collections in the U.S., Europe, and Israel. She teaches painting and she also accepts commission work. Her paintings will be on exhibit again from June 12-Sept. 18, 1989 at The Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain, MA. If an exhibition of her paintings should come your way, don’t miss it.” -Jan Hale
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