These really resonate with me. I’m also working with a single central object, with indications of a gravity-bound space. I like that she keeps it that simple, and then expands within those parameters. The painted abstraction flows into subjective content in a honest way, as if that’s what happens when you paint, which of course is what happens.
Yeah. What Carla says, that’s exactly what I like about these paintings. I was thinking today about centralized volume as figure, odd gravity-bound space as ground. I was honestly trying to remember if there’s any historical precedent or if it’s actual formal invention of our time.
The closest thing to historical precedent I can think of right now is in Annunciation paintings, when the angel is floating on some wonky cluster of cloud/cupids/what-have-you. But that shape isn’t “centralized” per se.
i think lots of ceiling-based works function like this to some degree… lots of tiepolos as well. maybe even fragonard’s swing. also ancient alchemical illustrations, depictions of the platonic solids…
A google image search of “goya still life” brings up a lot of similar images-stacks of fish, hare, mutton, salmon, and a turkey. I also think of other dead meat paintings like Caillebotte’s calf’s head and tongue in the Art Institute of Chicago or the Hyman Bloom painting from the “Paint Made Flesh” show.
Actually, I’m really glad people ARE coming up with similar forms in history. I get into that. Everything old is new again. It was looking at a big Lorenzo Monaco in the Uffizi that made me realize I like Laura Owens. Renewal is more fun than innovation. Thanks, folks.
Yes, We’re straying from our Midwest thing again. Just thought these paintings were pretty awesome and wanted to share.
these are totally seductive.
makes me think of claire sherman. like somebody called her and said, “hey, stay inside and make it up!”
“Stay inside and make it up” – funny.
These really resonate with me. I’m also working with a single central object, with indications of a gravity-bound space. I like that she keeps it that simple, and then expands within those parameters. The painted abstraction flows into subjective content in a honest way, as if that’s what happens when you paint, which of course is what happens.
Yeah. What Carla says, that’s exactly what I like about these paintings. I was thinking today about centralized volume as figure, odd gravity-bound space as ground. I was honestly trying to remember if there’s any historical precedent or if it’s actual formal invention of our time.
Hah!
My first thought was, “These are wonderful” followed by, “I need to share these paintings with Miss Rocktown, but of course, she already knows.
The closest thing to historical precedent I can think of right now is in Annunciation paintings, when the angel is floating on some wonky cluster of cloud/cupids/what-have-you. But that shape isn’t “centralized” per se.
i think lots of ceiling-based works function like this to some degree… lots of tiepolos as well. maybe even fragonard’s swing. also ancient alchemical illustrations, depictions of the platonic solids…
A google image search of “goya still life” brings up a lot of similar images-stacks of fish, hare, mutton, salmon, and a turkey. I also think of other dead meat paintings like Caillebotte’s calf’s head and tongue in the Art Institute of Chicago or the Hyman Bloom painting from the “Paint Made Flesh” show.
Actually, I’m really glad people ARE coming up with similar forms in history. I get into that. Everything old is new again. It was looking at a big Lorenzo Monaco in the Uffizi that made me realize I like Laura Owens. Renewal is more fun than innovation. Thanks, folks.