Not exact matches
His cut - paper
paintings juxtapose faintly outlined
images: a jumping basketball player, a giant butterfly, a floating fragment of Wright's Guggenheim Museum... The
Ghostly mat acrylic surfaces of the
paintings are gently incised and peeled away to reveal playful dreamscapes of free association.
Often represented in hues of violets, blues and reds, Bracha's works offer abstracted configurations and spaces created by the materiality of oil
paint, ink, and the powered ash of photocopying dust, the undulation of light and shadow, and the traces of fragmented,
ghostly images that appear and disappear.
Ghostly figures, a theatric use of light, teasingly oblique narratives and the type of
paint handling ability that can only be won over years of practice all add up to one potent
image after another.
At the same time, the
ghostly character of these indistinct
images that emerges during their transformation with thick layers of
paint, helps to liberate them from their customary associations, and maintains an ambivalent tension between imagination and reality - another favourite Richter theme.
Having trained in academic French
painting, so to speak, you make visible references to Western art, especially in your works in the main gallery, while in the smaller gallery toward the back — a beautiful, dimly lit environment — your
paintings are
ghostly, palimpsest - driven
images that compel one to look closely.
Hopkins has meticulously
painted over this
ghostly image, leaving a section exposed.
These
paintings, with their partially erased
images,
ghostly texts and disconnected symbols, remind us that we are constructed by personal experiences, fantasies, perceptions and external events.