Angela Dufresne and Bruce Lee and another famous yet un-nameable man on the

shore in front of an unmade building by Frank Lloyd Wright called the Donahue Triptych.Atop a wall of craggy rock, theatrically backlit by an early evening sky, arched walkways connect two wings of a high modernist habitat. Based on a drawing of an unmade building by Frank Lloyd Wright commissioned by the Donahue family, Dufresne's painting is a dream landscape, imbued with the spirit of visionary architecture. It is one of many examples in the artist's work of "places that should have been but never were, that exist only as fantasy." The artist often discreetly inserts herself into her own compositions; unmasked in this case in the long, whimsical title, she picks her way along the shore in the company of two male celebrities, one identified and one not.

selected GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2001 Artpact , The Harlem Flophouse, New York

Collabratory, Gail Gates Gallery, Brooklyn

Grrls, Untitled Space, New Haven

2000

Angela Dufresne, Off-Ramp Gallery, Brooklyn

1999 Fine Arts Works Center Invitational, Provincetown

1998 Angela Dufresne, Temple University Rome, Rome, Italy

1996 Trace, The Dead Space Gallery, Portland

1995 The New Degenerate Show, The Lab, San Francisco

Angela Dufresne, Gallery Rebelloso, Minneapolis

Recent Works, The Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco

1993 The Five Jerome Artists, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis

Artist Angela Dufresne about one of her newest works. Considering the 36-year-old painter's penchant for amplified colors and large canvases, psychedelic inspiration comes as no surprise. Electrified by a bold palette, her landscapes are infused with modernist structures that evoke the spirit of visionary architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, and Walter Gropius, and her buildings recall the romance the world once had with the ideals of modernism and its promises to transform everyday life. "It's almost like I'm resurrecting that romantic fantasy of whatever modernists wanted to achieve. Instead, we're surrounded with strip malls and suburbs." Because of her original perspective and vibrant execution, Dufresne has begun to draw not only attention but also respect in the art world.

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Read more information about Angela Dufresne paintaings and ehibitions at

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/angela_dufresne.htm