NY Studio Gallery is pleased to present Aerialscapes by painter Toni Silber-Delerive. While painting aerial views that represent the diverse contemporary landscape she focuses on compositional aesthetics and color to communicate realistic perspective and approach. The flattened surface plane reveals tenuous textures of abstract space, providing a modern perspective and fresh visual vocabulary. Drawing from the elevated position of high-rise buildings and commercial jets, she produces images of cities and towns, factories and farmlands, power plants, suburbs, and highways.

More than just a recording of the contemporary landscape, the paintings are Silber-Delerive’s interpretation and vision. Combining elements of abstraction and representation, pattern and grid, surface and illusion, as well as observation, imagination, and memory she examines the relationships between the man-made and the natural, urban and rural, agrarian and industrial, and the worlds of power, labor and leisure. The work can be understood on many levels, from the simple interplay of shape and color to the narrative of the pictorial story.