Not exact matches
Underneath her vibrant
layers of oil paint, cut and torn pieces
of heavy white drawing paper cover a rectangular panel.
This body
of work can be grouped into two categories: watercolors with web - like black lines interwoven over masses
of color suggesting successive
layers of depth, and
oil paintings of extremely
heavy consistency in which controlled randomness allows for the appearance
of an unconscious, interior landscape or what the French surrealist artists called an «inscape.»
Art history imparts a
heavy weight onto mediums like
oil paint, but, like any other material, Hundley then capitalizes on these histories by embracing them and unleashing their potential - by titling some
of the
paintings Still Life or Composition he embeds yet another
layer of historical reference.
His
oil painting is characterized by
heavy impasto brushwork, and are built up
layer upon
layer with plenty
of scraping and repainting.
The Black
Paintings were Hedrick's protest against the Vietnam War in which he took about 50
of his early canvases and
painted them in
heavy layers of black
oil paint.