“In her evolving sense of color-field abstraction, Helen Werngren is exploring her own sensatory visual language. The identifying characteristics of that personalized voice owe influential debts to earlier pioneers including Frankenthaler, Rothko, Krasner, and West Coast icons Diebenkorn and Thiebaud.

Now at mid-career, Werngren is moving towards a delicate resolution balancing color, luminosity, movement and form into a signatory sensibility. Transitioning in multi-media including delicate monotype prints and full throttle paintings, she is approaching a fully realized vision.

I look forward to observing her maturation as an artist possessing unquestionable talent, a lyrical imagination, and nuanced palette.

On her artistic journey from Sweden to California she has achieved a hard fought authenticity. Her art is inevitably enjoined and energized with a positive awareness of metaphysical beauty as life’s guiding force.”

Philip Eliasoph, PhD,
Professor of Art History & Visual Culture, Fairfield University, Connecticut
Faculty Consultant, Arts & Visual Culture: The New York Times
Elected member, Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art UNESCO, Paris