Artists David C. Gallup and Nansi J. Bielanski at the California Art Club Gold Medal Show March 28, 2015, standing in front of their award-winning painting: "A Deeper Love".

California Art Club Gold Medal Show March 28, 2015


Our painting "A Deeper Love" sold,
and we were awarded the "American Art Collector" Award for Artistic Excellence.

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COLLABORATIVE WORK

Creating art is like a dialogue between the artist and canvas.  Creating Collaborative Art adds the dimension of exchanging ideas with another person as the paint is added to the canvas….”What happens if you try this?....Can we take this in another direction?, etc.”  Beginning with flowers (that are similar to many of the life forms on the ocean bottom) David and I started working on each others canvases, eventually sharing the concepts and ideas of new paintings and the back-and-forth of both of us working on the same canvas. The following is the result of this collaboration.  

NANSI J. BIELANSKI and DAVID C. GALLUP

For all of us who call ourselves artists, growth in our work comes from personal growth in our lives. Too often, it requires many solitary hours in the studio to translate our personal growth into something which helps us evolve in our work.  This year, for me, the sting of that isolation has been soothed by the opportunity to collaborate on some undersea and studio pieces with another artist, David C. Gallup.  David and I have had the pleasure of painting and traveling together for a few years now, mainly in classes and workshops, and recently we have begun to weave our shared dive experiences into collaborative paintings in which we each contribute our memory of the scene, our interpretation of the experience, and our own artistic aesthetics and abilities to the work.  Our most recent collaboration has produced a painting which pleases me more than any I've ever done alone, and maybe that should not be a surprise.  After all, there seems to be little to risk in inviting in another trained eye, another broad mind, another set of talents and skills to add to the work.  In"A Deeper Love"  we have done exactly that, accomplishing (I believe) more together than either of us might have done alone.                   

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"A Deeper Love"
38" x 32"  Oil on Canvas, Custom Frame in 12k and 22k Gold
Copyright 2015 by Nansi J. Bielanski & David C. Gallup
Exhibited at the Fischer Museum of Art at USC, Los Angeles
in the California Art Club's 104th Annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition
Winner of American Art Collector Magazine's Award of Artistic Excellence

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"Reborn", 32" x 25", Oil on Mounted Panel, 22 karat gold custom handcrafted frame. 
Copyright 2015 Nansi J. Bielanski and David C. Gallup

"Life Opalescent", 22" x 28", Oil on Mounted Panel, 22 karat gold custom handcrafted frame.
Copyright 2015 Nansi J. Bielanski and David C. Gallup.

"Jubilation" ~ French Grunts off West Caicos Island 24" x 20", Oil on Canvas, Custom Frame in 12k and 22k Gold

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"Jubilation" ~ French Grunts off West Caicos Island
20" x 24"   Oil on Canvas, Custom Frame in 12k and 22k Gold
Copyright 2014 by Nansi J. Bielanski & David C. Gallup

"Life"
36" x 36" Oil on Mounted Canvas, Custom Frame in 22k Gold
Copyright 2015 by David C. Gallup & Nansi J. Bielanski
Exhibited at the Frederick R. Weisman Museum, Malibu
in the California Art Club's "On Location in Malibu" Juried Exhibition

"Nuestra Casa es Feliz"
20" x 20"  Oil on Canvas, Custom 22k Gold Frame
Copyright 2015 by Nansi J. Bielanski & David C. Gallup

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"Lazy Afternoon With Tulips"
12" x 12", Oil on Canvas- Custom Frame- 12k & 22k Gold
Copyright 2015 by Nansi Bielanski and David C. Gallup

"Roses with Tangerines"
24" x 18", Oil on Canvas- Custom Frame in 22k Gold
Copyright 2015 by Nansi Bielanski and David C. Gallup

"Beautiful Spray", 18" x 24", Oil on Mounted Panel, 22 karat gold custom frame.
Copyright 2015 Nansi J. Bielanski and David C. Gallup.

"Goldfish & Roses", 16" x 20", Oil on Mounted Canvas, 22 karat gold custom frame.
Copyright 2015 Nansi J. Bielanski and David C. Gallup

"The Color of Happiness", 20" x 16", Oil on Mounted Panel, 22 karat gold custom frame.
Copyright Nansi J. Bielanski and David C. Gallup.

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"American Oystercatcher, Malibu"
9" x 12", Oil on Canvas- Custom Frame in 12k Gold
Copyright 2015 by Nansi J. Bielanski and David C. Gallup

Artists Nansi J. Bielanski and David C. Gallup being awarded the "American Art Collector" Award for Artistic Excellence, by Artist and President Peter Adams at the 104th California Art Club Gold Medal Juried Exhibition at the USC Fisher Museum of Art