Small Figures emerge from Abstraction
Added 2025-04-06 14:18:41 +0000 UTCI built opacity very slowly on this painting “Fire Giveth, Fire Taketh”. It began with so much dark on light transparency, and hatched paint application, and up until almost one week prior to the shows opening I was adding opacity to the flesh. The figures at the bottom germinated from abstract shapes that emerged to be a family and a protective animalia figure. It has a medieval vibe mixed with Neo Rauch, meets Kollwitz, meets Blake.
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When making more colorful paintings, I find luminous warm ground advantageous. When making total paintings, I find a neutral ground more advantageous. Eight years ago during my realist phase, I was way more concerned with a natural color and veered away from chromatic grounds generally .
colleen barry
2025-04-08 14:09:43 +0000 UTCThis is very interesting. You used to talk about how you would start with low chroma and then build to high chroma. This starts with high chroma and then modulates. It's an opposite way of thinking, and it probably comes from the high chroma ground.
Shelah Horvitz
2025-04-07 11:43:52 +0000 UTCAbsolutely mind blowing ⚡️
tania rivilis
2025-04-06 16:16:07 +0000 UTC
