Sentences with phrase «gesso board paintings»
The ravishing fields of color that appear in Amm's gesso board paintings, which will constitute the entirety of this exhibition, represent one of the most sustained and sensuous bodies of work being made by a contemporary European artist.
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On a pre-cut board from Michael's I began by painting on a few layers of Gesso and then layers of black paint, drying between each coat with a hair dryer.
It is very time consuming as I make the gesso to prepare my boards and grind my own paint to mix, but the results are worth it.»
Created by infrequently pouring extremely thin layers of paint onto a prepared surface over long periods of time, the small - scale gesso boards reveal radiant compositions that develop and deepen before the viewer's gaze.
Tracing the archaeology of the paintings in the sculptural formations that accrue on their edges creates a dynamic contrast between the illusionistic interior spaces opened up within the compositions and the frank materiality of the gesso boards as objects hanging on the wall.
The first four pieces one sees upon entering, a series of white, blue, yellow, and black paintings which utilize acrylics, oil, and magic sculpt on gesso boards are each adorned with a single word, «washed», «blood», «bellied», and «power».
The show includes small, medium and large - scale works that fall into two broad categories: acrylic - and - gesso paintings on canvas, and oil paintings on gesso board.
Isabel Nolan, Heliosphere, 2014 10 cm x 15 cm Hand painted watercolour on gesso board Edition of 50.