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artist statement
 

 
space 49 (60"x48")
space 49
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My space paintings show a process of sedimentation. Thin layers of paint let the light seep out from within the painting. The effect of color transparencies, light and dark, help create a mood or an atmospheric quality which enhances the reading of marks, lines and colors as loose depictions of elements in nature.
Recurrent shapes : a tree or a body ? Sky or water ? But ultimately they are but traces, remnants of images with no fixed identity. I like to see my paintings as spaces of ambiguity inviting the viewer to a patient contemplation.


The series morceaux d'espaces consists of assemblages of small oil paintings. This process of juxtaposing canvasses which have been painted individually often weeks apart facilitates the questioning and playing with the conventional pictorial sign systems. It disrupts any intentional symbolism and at times the illusion of space's depth becomes a desorientating force. But ultimately painting is a dialogue with color


visit the "morceaux d'espaces"  gallery
morceaux d'espaces I

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Reviews : Art of Northern California
Publications
Article by the french TV France 3 (October 4, 2006, pdf 180 ko)
Article by the french TV France 3 (September 28, 2004, pdf 160 ko)
American Art Collector (March 2004)
Art of Northern California (January 2003)
Article in the french newspaper Centre Presse (April 26, 2003, pdf 279ko)

Artist friends
Saeri Kiritani
Kristina Pardue
Tino Rodriguez
Linda Sanders Colnett

Elena Zolotnitsky


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