Vera Kaplan

FEATURED ARTIST April 2026

Art Gallery 71 invites you to
Canvas as Dreamcatcher
paintings by artist Vera Kaplan
April 10 - May 3
Reception: Saturday, April 18, 4-6pm

”This show features work in oil inspired by a visit to the Gabriele Muenther retrospective currently on display at the Guggenheim. She was a member of the Blue Rider group of Fauvist artists in Germany who colored their still lifes and landscape paintings according to the feelings their surroundings produced. 
 
While my work shares the love of bright color and the outlining of shapes that characterizes the work of the Fauves, unlike the Fauves I don’t base my paintings on what I see but instead on an inquiry into what the subconscious mind will produce without regard to outward observation.  Like fiction writers who prefer their characters to surprise them and don’t use outlines to produce their novels or stories, I tend not to sketch first or preplan my paintings. They form on the canvas as I move my brush, much as dreams arise as we sleep. 
 
I look forward to sharing my new work with friends new and old who come to visit Art Gallery 71.” 
 

See more of Vera’s work at:
VeraKaplan.com

Amid Flowers, Oil on Canvas, 15”x30”