The ghost within the image is accentuated in the three unique works by Nicole Wittenberg that recall a printmaking sensibility by deploying
contrasting painterly approaches to a same appropriated photograph by Paul Outerbridge, which image itself recalls Northern Renaissance paintings of the mother of mankind with all its implications of temptation and generation.
Not exact matches
Paul Pagk's Minuit Fugue, a pink abstract painting is pretty much the definition of
painterly surface effect; I really love the
contrast between the large areas of thick glossy paint, and the crustiness that occurred as the paint
approached the whiteish lines.
In
contrast to these more
painterly works, the car of the late Viennese artist Franz West suggests a sculptural
approach tinged with wit.