The phrase
"illusory depth" refers to a situation where something appears deeper or more complex than it really is. It suggests that there is a perception or illusion of depth, but in reality, the depth is not real or substantial.
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Andy Coolquitt includes three new sculptures for Illusions Lounge, which are exemplary
of illusory depth as well as subtleties of color, shadow, and light.
Her staining method emphasized the flat surface
over illusory depth, and it called attention to the very nature of paint on canvas, a concern of artists and critics at the time.
The show concludes with seeming frames from the videos, but in charcoal that softens their textures and carries them into a greater but
more illusory depth.
Here the artist's signature framing device, the smooth paint that constitutes a wall around the work, tempts us to
imagine illusory depth and gently taunts us with geometric possibilities.
Inspired by the contour of a favorite chair from her childhood, in combination with a sand painting she recently found in a garage sale, the sculptures explore positioning in space, and real
vs. illusory depth, as well as pictorial language in general.
But giving even
greater illusory depth, there are also 200 bars of different colors set at a slant to, and intersecting with, the vertical ones.
Within each work, Navarro has incorporated significant words or phrases like BURDEN, RHYME and PLUNDER, which echo through each structure's
illusory depth.
The «Homage» paintings, begun nearly three decades later, create a sense of overlapping colour and
an illusory depth and the luminosity of Albers's glass - works.
In contrast to the graphic, cartoon - like quality of Essenhigh's early works,
the illusory depth of these paintings infuses the figures with a plausibility, yet the works remain true to the sweeping strokes and amorphous forms that have defined Essenhigh's visual vocabulary.
The resulting paintings are distinguished by shifts between flat planes of colour and
an illusory depth.
These hybrid images of flat color planes and
illusory depth, executed in acrylic, spray paint and computer programs like Photoshop and Illustrator, have a pronounced retinal effect Elrod gets by putting sharp geometric shapes out of focus.
The resulting paintings are characterised by shifts between flat planes and
illusory depth and a visual language that oscillates between diagrammatic and ambient, purely abstract and literal, grisaille and technicolour.
By utilizing negative space and alternating between a sense of representing a discrete object or a cutaway section of the ground, he re-examines formal ideas of figure and ground relationships and the image shifts between flat areas of modern colour and
illusory depth.
Yet these same chromatic stains and opposing fabrics push you back to make sense of
the illusory depth and the ambiguous but evocative compositions.