FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

“LIVING IN ABSTRACTION”, a two-person exhibition, featuring two contemporary abstract artists:
Sandi Miot, Jenny Simon.
Dates: March 3rd – 29th, 2005
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 5th, 6 – 8 p.m.

Absolute Art Gallery
2326 Huntington Drive, San Marino, CA 91108
Tel: 626.285.8585,
E-mail, <mailto:info@absoluteartgallery.net>
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Gallery Hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 11am-6pm, and Monday, Wednesday by appointment

San Marino, CA -- Absolute Art Gallery is very pleased to announce a two-person exhibition, featuring two contemporary abstract artists, Sandi Miot, Jenny Simon. The exhibition opens March 3rd and runs through 29th. The opening reception will be held from 6–8 p.m. on Saturday, March 5th, 2005, and is open to the public.

Sandi Miot is an artist working primarily in the ancient medium of encaustics. Richly textured and saturated with deep pigments, her work combines new and unique techniques with her exceptional command of this venerable medium.

Her work is known and collected both nationally and internationally and has appeared on the sets of such popular television shows such as “Friends”, “ER” and “CSI: Miami”. She has studied and worked

Extensively in a variety of mediums, from clay and glass, to oil, pastel, and watercolor. However, she especially loves the ancient mediums of egg tempera, gold leaf and encaustics.

Encaustic is the Classical Greek art of painting with hot, pigmented beeswax. Sandi incorporates the time-honored mediums of encaustics and gold leaf. Her forms, while intrinsically abstract, are steeped in historic images and symbolism and are a visual reference to her personal search for meaning and her feelings about life’s philosophies and choices.

Originally from Washington, D.C., Sandi Miot lived in Miami, Florida, for over 25 years before moving to Northern California. She has had the privilege to study Renaissance art and painting extensively in Italy and France with such noted artists as Jack Beal, Sondra Freckleton, and Fred Wessel, as well as further instruction in painting with other fine instructors such as Daniel Greene, Louise Cadillac, and Pat Deadman, to name but a few.

Diversity, with all its fascinating choices, intrigues me and is evident throughout my work. Miot’s love of variety has led me to study quite a few mediums including oils, pastels, watercolors, acrylics, egg tempera, gold leaf, glass fusing, mixed media collage and encaustic. “The ancient mediums, as well as their themes and images, fascinate me and give me an ever widening option of expressing the world around me and my relationship to it.”

After moving to California, Miot began to move away from representative painting. She is now working entirely in an abstract style and primarily in encaustics. To read a short explanation and history of the medium of encaustics, go to History.


My paintings are the mirror of my soul. It feels like my soul is painting and I am watching as my dreams become real right before my eyes. “Living in abstraction” represents my personal way of expressing myself on canvas. To me it is not only a title for this show but a way of living. I invite the viewer to see (feel) and create their own connection with each artwork.” - Jenny Simon

Jenny Simon is dedicated to a pure approach to abstract painting. Her works are radiant colorful compositions; collaborations of feelings and visual thoughts expressed with vibrant colors in a refreshing contemporary style. The viewer bathes in the deepness of warm colors and is surrounded by the dreams and emotions the artist created. Her confidant strokes and abundant vivid colors provide the artworks with an energy that imbue her creations with movement. In a world of imaginations her paintings are silently speaking the language of spirituality and change.

Jenny Simon has lived and worked as a painter in Berlin, Germany where she was born. As a child she worked on wooden sculptures with her father in his basement workshop. At the age of ten the artist started drawing with charcoal to imitate the German painters Karl Spitzweg and Albrecht Duerer. As an adolescent she explored with mediums such as acrylic and watercolors. Since 1995 the artist has been painting oils in abstractions using primarily large canvases. Since 1999 she also has specialized in creating custom-designed paintings. In 2002 the artist established her new studio in Southern California where she is currently residing. Her works are collected worldwide.

Absolute Art Gallery invites architects, designers, families, friends and art fans that treasure the look and feel of contemporary arts to join our wonderful reception and visit or contact us.

Absolute Art Gallery is located at 2326 Huntington Drive, between San Marino Avenue and Del Mar Avenue, 100 feet east of San Marino City Hall, south of Huntington Library in San Marino. Map & Direction: