Though my representational work is often referenced alongside Georgia O‘Keeffe, thesimilarity starts and ends with the fact that we are both identified with painting flowers.My more conceptual series probe the bridge between beauty and science, order andchaos. And with my newest series – Unveiled Duality – inspired by the unlikely pairingof artists Robert Mapplethorpe and Pablo Picasso, I am searching for a balance ofharmony and tension amongst the highly contrasting elements of the accuracy of photo-realism and the abstract, geometric forms of cubism. As New York art journalist JoyceKorotkin wrote: “Bigeleisen brings a unique vision to the genre of floral painting toembody a contemporary world."