Smoke paints the shape of the air, how it moves in waves, shifting, mercurial.
Not exact matches
From functioning clocks made from paper, intricate room - sized mobiles, and serpentine
smoke trails laser - etched on bright paper or woven into tapestries, to colorful
paintings draped with real spider webs and animal -
shaped functional cast - iron barbecues, White amplifies the «artfulness» of everyday things.
There, she creates abstract
paintings and
smoke drawings possessing mysterious, ethereal qualities that intrigue the viewer with layers, textures and
shapes.
Painting on raw canvas, she presents an assortment of recognizable objects (fire,
smoke, alligators, matchsticks, letters) and simple geometric
shapes (circles, zigzags) by using bright even colors and sharpened edges, leaving strong instant impression which continues to resonate visually, and creating moments of perverse tension.
Kleine Spritztour (Joyride), one of my favorite works from this time, depicts a round object (Baer keeps a
shape archive, so - called «carriers,» serving as sliced salami, breasts, etc.) resembling a vinyl record, a breast seen from the front, or an eye
smoking a cigarette, while traveling on a gray road toward a
smoke storm of lace and
painted blur.
The zigzags and pushed - out curves are retained in the subsequent
paintings as a structural set for some cartoonish imagery — a joke artist's palette and brushes, Mickey Mouse feet, a joint smouldering in the palm on a Mickey Mouse hand, cartoon
smoke, bliplike baby
shapes.
Actually, the phone,
smoke, and sunlight are good analogs for what is in Greene's
paintings: weighty, curving
shapes, dissolving outlines, and diaphanous layers of colors.