SMI Academy Square Gallery
33 Plymouth Street
Montclair, NJ 07042
HOURS: Mon – Fri, 7am – 7pm
or by appointment
Studio Montclair (SMI) is delighted to present “Integrating Elsewhere,” a solo exhibition of sculpture and paintings by artist Wendy Letven. An opening reception will be held on Thursday January 15, from 6:00-8:00pm.
“Integrating Elsewhere” brings together paintings and sculptures formed through the mind’s eye—works that arise from inward perception rather than direct observation. Through color, rhythm, and an orchestrated fracturing of perception, Wendy Letven’s works pulse with energy, moving between cohesion and collapse. Chaos becomes harmony, dissonance becomes music. Fragmented forms, repeated motifs, and a personal iconography create structures that feel provisional and in flux, as if held only momentarily.
Viewers are invited into an elsewhere: a psychological and sensory space where contemporary experience is felt as ecstatic overwhelm—simultaneously immersive, unstable, and quietly reflective.
Artist’s Statement
Integrating Elsewhere brings together paintings and sculptures formed through the mind’s eye—works that arise from inward perception rather than direct observation. Through color, rhythm, and an orchestrated fracturing of perception, Wendy Letven’s works pulse with energy, moving between cohesion and collapse. Chaos becomes harmony, dissonance becomes music.
Fragmented forms, repeated motifs, and a personal iconography create structures that feel provisional and in flux, as if held only momentarily. Viewers are invited into an elsewhere: a psychological and sensory space where contemporary experience is felt as ecstatic overwhelm—simultaneously immersive, unstable, and quietly reflective.
About The Artist
Wendy Letven is a multidisciplinary artist with a practice that includes painting, sculpture and installation art. Wendy has gallery representation with K. Imperial Fine Art in San Francisco, Beth Urdang in Boston and Analysis Gallery (NL=US) based out of New York and the Netherlands. Wendy has created public art for The New York Percent for Art Program, Brookfield Properties, Riverside Park Conservancy, Art on Paper Fair, Market Art and Design, and The Sheila R. Johnson Gallery at the New School, among other organizations. Wendy has received numerous honors including a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, a NJSCA grant, a Pollack Krasner grant and others. Raised in Philadelphia, she received a BFA from Tyler School of Art, an MFA from Hunter College and teaches art at Parsons and RISD.