Situated part way between abstraction and representation, her figures are reduced to concisely defined fields of shiny colour, on which
small brush marks remain just visible.
Get up close and you can see
the small brush marks and the history of their making.
Not exact matches
I took my
small brush and painted right to the edge of the groove
mark.
There are things you've done recently, like the illogical scale shift between the
small mark and larger
brush stroke that is a very new thing in your work.
I am writing this statement not quite knowing what the immediate outcome will be, but am aware of the potential collective impact that this distinctive community of creators will have with Brian Belott's innovations in collage, Ákos Birkás's philosophy about painting a certain situation, Regina Bogat's devotion to art making with clever variations on certain abstract themes, Matt Bollinger's extra-large and bracing graphite drawings, Paul DeMuro's painterly electricity, Marc Desgrandchamp's time - fragmented paintings, Michael Dotson's paintings of the «Disney - esque,» Michel Huelin's relationship with nature and software, Irena Jurek's very meaningful cat character, Alix Le Méléder's proposals of four colors determined by the passage of the
brush, David Lefebvre's painted images cut out of magazines or downloaded from a mobile phone, Pushpamala N.'s ethnographic documentations which have been compared to Cindy Sherman, Wang Keping's unique wooden sculptures that juxtapose vivid emotion with a
marked sense of introversion, Katharina Ziemke's pictorial treatment of current events, and me, the co-host with a
small drawing.
The paintings are woven from
small obsessive
brush -
marks, reminiscent of the caked edges of a painter's pallet; where colours build - up by random application layer upon layer.
I use a «pouncing» technique when getting in
small areas or dimples and nicks in the wood, and I don't bother trying to fix the
brush marks that pouncing makes.
I'm able to get a smooth finish simply by going over my
brush marks while still wet with a
small dense foam roller.
So I took a
small brush and touched up the paint around them to remove the
marks.