Closing party for Uncharted Waters

Join us for an evening of art, music, and celebration as we toast the closing weekend of Mark Seidenfeld’s solo painting exhibition, UNCHARTED WATERS. Enjoy the irresistible Latin jazz rhythms of Richie Siegler y Los Reyes del Mambo while you explore the exhibition and celebrate the final days of the show before it closes on Sunday, June 21.

About Mark Seidenfeld

Mark Seidenfeld was born in 1954 in New York City. He is an abstract painter whose work investigates structure, gesture, and spatial depth. His practice is defined by a sustained engagement with painting as an evolving process shaped by perception and revision. He lives and works in the Hamptons.

Artist Statement

When asked to describe my approach to painting, I typically respond, saying ‘I set my sails for the deep and uncharted waters.’

You see, for me, painting is not a relaxing pastime or an exercise in decoration. Each canvas is a journey into experimentation. It is only by navigating, and sometimes fighting my way to a place beyond influences and past experiences, that I have the chance to make something true, and unique to me.

Painting is the tool I use to hone my own singular creative voice. It demands that I face doubt and fear, to overcome them. As a society, we have stories, great myths, about heroes who leave the safety of their homes to journey into unknown lands, to face demons, and return with new knowledge to save their people. This ‘hero’s journey’ is what the artist takes in his or her studio. I risk everything to move into deeper places of perception and wonder, parts of the mind that remain hidden unless I force my way in. This is how my paintings develop. With no map and no clear direction, I travel internally, to unknown lands, in the hope I will return, having created something which reflects my experience.

I believe work created by breaking one’s boundaries shimmers because it reflects the struggle to be truthful. My painting is an alchemical process which transforms my emotions, vision, awareness and instinct into something illuminated and empowered. Art is a powerful weapon; a weapon of awareness. If it makes the viewer see something she has never seen before, then her life is different, transformed. For me, art is a transformation accelerator.