Artifacts: E.M. Saniga
Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects present Artifacts, a solo exhibition of paintings by E.M. Saniga. This exhibition has two components. The first is a collection of new works by the artist, depicting Quaker artifacts and structures from the area surrounding Saniga’s home in rural Lancaster County Pennsylvania. The second, on view at PR0JECTOR, our pop-up location on Eldridge Street, is a survey of the artist’s earlier paintings, with many works borrowed from private collections. Saniga’s still lifes depict ceramic and metal fragments excavated from the site of a burnt down 18th century Quaker frame house discovered on the property of neighbor and amateur archeologist Peter Deen. Other objects and materials described in these works derive from museum collections, memory and imagination. The landscapes included in the exhibition, depict original Quaker houses in and around Lancaster County, such as the 1770 Quaker home Saniga lives in with his family. Saniga studied with Seymour Remenick at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and privately under Bruce Kurland. He endows a residency program called the Charles and Lois Carlson Landscape Painting Prize awarded to a Pennsylvania Academy student. This is Saniga’s third exhibition at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects. His work was exhibited at The Lancaster Museum of Art in 2012.
