Emotion Is The Core of An Exhibition of Abstract Painting

For artist Beatrice Dauge Kaufmann, painting is way to express her emotions.

“Emotions are at the core of my work,” she writes.  “I do not fear them, but seek to render them through abstract pictures or landscapes and figurative elements.”

Dauge Kaufmann’s paintings will be on display through July 29th at the on Central Street.

The exhibition, “Colors and Sea,” depicts Dauge Kaufmann’s love of the sky and sea through a series of abstract paintings in an amazing range of blues and greens. The works bear witness to her philosophy of painting as a process of letting go and allowing abstract elements to become an expression of feelings and ultimately a painting.

The Arlington artist who was born in Lausanne, Switzerland and has traveled extensively throughout the world, said the fall season in New England has also been an inspiration, introducing “an infinite palette” of reds, oranges and pinks into her work.

“My work with color evokes feelings of freedom, peace, density and space,”  she wrote in a personal statement about her work.

Dauge Kaufmann moved to the Boston area 10 years ago and was first introduced to the Wellesley Community when she was invited to do a solo exhibition at in 2009. During the monthlong exhibition she also taught art classes to students at the school.

Today Dauge Kaufmann’s work is hanging in many Wellesley homes, but she welcomes the opportunity for it to be seen by a wider audience.

“It is always a nice idea to show the art in different kinds of space,” she said. “It gives another dimension to the work, opens the eyes of the public to abstract art and sea landscape.”

This exhibition is a combination of newly created work and older paintings, a mix she says is interesting because it shows how her work has evolved. It also includes abstract sea landscapes done in a series, something she says she likes to do because it forces her to really discover her subject.

“I like to work in series because it gives you discipline to go deeper into your work, in yourself and to find new ways to express your feelings through a variety of colors, shapes, textures, transparencies and composition. 

‘“The squares canvas represents the box and I try to get out of the box and express what I see, feel around me and the society. The sea landscapes give me peace, dreams and hopes of freedom for each of us,” she said.

Dauge Kaufmann’s work has been exhibited around the world, and is currently in private and corporate collections throughout Europe and in Japan, China, Mexico, Taiwan among others. Her paintings are also in galleries in Boston, Newburyport, Cape Cod, New York and Montreal.

This year Dauge Kaufmann has been accepted by a jury as a member of the National Association of Women Artists in New York and Florida and has won several awards at the Copley Society of Art in Boston.

The “Colors and Sea” exhibition is open to the public at the Village Church gallery everyday. Hours in June are Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and in July 9 a.m. to noon. Saturday hours during both months are 9 to 11 in the morning, and on Sundays from 8:30 a.m. to noon.

Prices for Dauge Kaufmann’s work range from $150 to $790 for small works and from $790 to $4,800 for larger paintings.

For this exhibition, Dauge Kaufmann said she is reducing the prices by 25 percent, and will donate 10 percent of sales to the Village Church for charity.

To see more of Kaufmann’s work, go to her website at www.beatricedauge.com  <http://www.beatricedauge.com/> .