Boltax.gallery presents Paintings by Suzanne Unrein with a pop-up exhibition in East Hampton to coincide with the Hamptons International Film Festival Oct 13-17th.

The film festival will be the US premier of Michael Meredith’s short film “Hands & Eyes”, starring Hampton Facher and Richard Elson and was shot entirely in Unrein’s studio, using her paintings to tell the story of an art critic’s visit to review an artist’s work.

Having spared three minutes for the visit, the critic (Facher) has no time to hear from the artist (Elson) himself. Cutting him off at hello, the critic proceeds on a three-minute diatribe about the works at hand. From brilliant historical insights to pedantic lunacy, he takes us on a roller-coaster ride through the inner workings of his supple yet contorted mind.

Unrein started working with old master paintings after seeing Flemish artist, Peter Paul Rubens' "Massacre of the Innocents" in the National Gallery in London several years ago.   “From across the room, I saw it as a beautiful abstraction and decided to paint it that way.”

After doing variations of Rubens, she moved on to Nicolas Poussin, Raphael, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, eventually mixing them all together - different paintings, artists and time periods – abstracting and reconstructing their compositions with recognizable fragments from the past.

Suzanne Unrein’s canvases will be on view at the Design Within Reach store located at 30 Park Place, East Hampton and a reception will be held Friday October 13th from 6:30-8:30pm with both the artist and filmmakers on hand, just prior to the 9:15 screening across the street at the East Hampton Cinema.

For more information about the artist and her work, please contact Karen Boltax  at  boltax@boltaxgallery.com