Not exact matches
I allow the
paint to bleed, smudge, peel back at times, which disrupts the
illusory or pictorial
space, emphasizing the materials and surface instead... the way in which I construct illusions
of depth and
space, where certain patterns seem to float in front
of others, screens
of lines that you are looking through, into another internal
space.
The artist complicates this in an extraordinary way by making these crude models from aluminum foil using reflected color, the result being an
illusory and refracted
space that becomes solidified through the process
of painting.
Citing a desire to revisit fifteenth - century Italian
painting in which figures are situated within highly detailed architectural
spaces, Larsen began to create narrative scenes that upset any sense
of the
illusory perspectives
of traditional representation.
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.
This series
of paintings is fresh and exciting with novel compositions and
illusory effects that create a tension between the two - dimensional picture plane and three - dimensional
space.