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Snapshots: Solo exhibition by Helena Wurzel

Past exhibition
17 February - 19 March 2023
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Snapshots, Solo exhibition by Helena Wurzel

Praise Shadows Art Gallery is thrilled to present Snapshots, a solo exhibition by Cambridge-based artist Helena Wurzel. A painter with a virtuosic talent for patterns and color, this presentation evokes her love for family, community, and female camaraderie. An artist based in the Boston area for nearly 20 years, this is Wurzel’s most comprehensive exhibition to featuring a new body of work, predominantly oil on canvas with select new collage works on paper and intimately sized gouache on panel paintings. Wurzel emphasizes color to create a sense of mood, temperature, sunlight and the turning of seasons. This attunement to color, paired with scenes of the quietly quotidian – bike-riding, leaf-raking, dogs-walking – draw us deeply in her tight-knit Cambridge community of neighbors and friends.

 

About the Artist 

Helena Wurzel is a painter living in Cambridge, MA. She received an MFA in painting from Boston University in 2007 and is a two-time recipient of Massachusetts Cultural Council Grants (2010 and 2016). Her work has been featured on the cover of New American Paintings, and in multiple campaigns with the designer Kate Spade, as well as in designer Jonathan Adler’s retail spaces in Los Angeles, Miami and beyond. For 15 years, until 2022, she taught painting full-time in the Boston area. Her work is in private and corporate collections throughout the United States. 

 

Helena Wurzel's works are registered on Fairchain, which establishes second sales royalties for the artist. To learn more and inquire about works, please contact gallery@praiseshadows.com.

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Works
  • Helena Wurzel, Garden Shadow, 2020
    Helena Wurzel, Garden Shadow, 2020
  • Helena Wurzel, Long Day Dreams, 2020
    Helena Wurzel, Long Day Dreams, 2020
  • Helena Wurzel, Spring Blues, 2022
    Helena Wurzel, Spring Blues, 2022
  • Helena Wurzel, My Girl, 2023
    Helena Wurzel, My Girl, 2023
  • Helena Wurzel, Walk, 2022
    Helena Wurzel, Walk, 2022
  • Helena Wurzel, Coffee To Go, 2022
    Helena Wurzel, Coffee To Go, 2022
  • Helena Wurzel, Walk and Talk, 2021
    Helena Wurzel, Walk and Talk, 2021
  • Helena Wurzel, Dog Shadow, 2022
    Helena Wurzel, Dog Shadow, 2022
  • Helena Wurzel, October Leah, 2022
    Helena Wurzel, October Leah, 2022
  • Helena Wurzel, Bike Shadow, 2022
    Helena Wurzel, Bike Shadow, 2022
  • Helena Wurzel, My Ride, 2022
    Helena Wurzel, My Ride, 2022
  • Helena Wurzel, Yellow Morning, 2022
    Helena Wurzel, Yellow Morning, 2022
  • Helena Wurzel, Hot Dogs and Hamburgers, 2022
    Helena Wurzel, Hot Dogs and Hamburgers, 2022
  • Helena Wurzel, Watermelon!, 2022
    Helena Wurzel, Watermelon!, 2022
  • Helena Wurzel, Fall Clean Up, 2021
    Helena Wurzel, Fall Clean Up, 2021
  • Helena Wurzel, Caroline, 2022
    Helena Wurzel, Caroline, 2022
  • Helena Wurzel, Moms on the Block, 2020
    Helena Wurzel, Moms on the Block, 2020
  • Helena Wurzel, Late Summer Laundry, 2021
    Helena Wurzel, Late Summer Laundry, 2021
  • Helena Wurzel, College Jeans, 2018
    Helena Wurzel, College Jeans, 2018
  • Helena Wurzel, Levi's, 2018
    Helena Wurzel, Levi's, 2018
  • Helena Wurzel, Iggy Takes a Ride, 2022
    Helena Wurzel, Iggy Takes a Ride, 2022
  • Helena Wurzel, Grocery Shopping, 2021
    Helena Wurzel, Grocery Shopping, 2021
  • Helena Wurzel, City Dahlia, 2022
    Helena Wurzel, City Dahlia, 2022
  • Helena Wurzel, For Everytown, 2022
    Helena Wurzel, For Everytown, 2022
  • Helena Wurzel, May, 2020
    Helena Wurzel, May, 2020
  • Helena Wurzel, In Bed with Jon Snow, 2017
    Helena Wurzel, In Bed with Jon Snow, 2017
  • Helena Wurzel, Meal Prep, 2022
    Helena Wurzel, Meal Prep, 2022
  • Helena Wurzel, Mums and Time, 2021
    Helena Wurzel, Mums and Time, 2021
  • Helena Wurzel, Porch Life, 2017
    Helena Wurzel, Porch Life, 2017
  • Helena Wurzel, Sweater, 2022
    Helena Wurzel, Sweater, 2022
  • Helena Wurzel, Hand Shadow, 2019
    Helena Wurzel, Hand Shadow, 2019
  • Helena Wurzel, Lake Day, 2022
    Helena Wurzel, Lake Day, 2022
  • Helena Wurzel, Looking at Lilies, 2018
    Helena Wurzel, Looking at Lilies, 2018
  • Helena Wurzel, Watermelon #2, 2022
    Helena Wurzel, Watermelon #2, 2022
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  • Intimate moments of self-reflection in seemingly ordinary spaces in Helena Wurzel's solo exhibition

    Maddie Browning , The Boston Globe, February 28, 2023

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