Painting with airbrushed acrylic on nylon mesh or Mylar has the effect of
layering illusionistic space on top of the painting's actual, material space.
Not exact matches
I tend to
layer one element at a time, perhaps unconsciously as I make decisions, and those
layers end up collapsing what would otherwise be
illusionistic space.
As perception and a
layered reading of different
spaces are simultaneously engaged, the artist's loose, free - flowing technique guides the viewer into the depths of
illusionistic space.
In «Chromatic Geometries,» her seventh solo exhibition at Arden Gallery, Mattera has decisively moved away from the
layered, atmospheric approach of earlier «Silk Road» and «Vicolo» series to explore, with her customary virtuosity, the possibilities of figure - ground relationships and the
illusionistic space conjured by dividing the square into two horizontal rectangles.
She presents strange and
layered environment composed of numerous narratives,
illusionistic using smoke and mirrors breaking down a traditional domestic
space.
How do you keep the painted relationships in an abstract painting JUST spatial / pictorial — neither depictive, descriptive, suggestive of
illusionistic, figurative, atmospheric
space; nor literal, one
layer on top of another (even though they are), or flatly adjacent?