Media
Speechless
Kristen T Woodward
Professor of Art, Albright College, Reading, PA, USA
Official Resident Curator, Artist2artist
Professor Woodward curates "Speechless" on Artist2Artist.com
The worked, layered color generates a pulsating energy in this work, while the textual components provide a refined equilibrium. The dark under-painting/ground comes through what looks to be a richly scumbled and eroded surface. I really like how the geometric circular shapes float to the top, and also reiterate the elements of text, on a slightly larger scale. The stenciled pieces add a structural support that is absent in some of your more gestural works, and they work especially well here. The figure with the feminine symbol (Luminescence) is a more overt or didactic combination of this interplay - in this piece there is a more reciprocal flow between the painterly surface and hard edged letter shapes. I also find myself amused by the title. The scrambled letters in that circumstance could be interpreted d as dyslexic, but it also reminds us that for a purely visual image there are often no words.
Professor of Art, Albright College, Reading, PA, USA
Official Resident Curator, Artist2artist
Professor Woodward curates "Speechless" on Artist2Artist.com
The worked, layered color generates a pulsating energy in this work, while the textual components provide a refined equilibrium. The dark under-painting/ground comes through what looks to be a richly scumbled and eroded surface. I really like how the geometric circular shapes float to the top, and also reiterate the elements of text, on a slightly larger scale. The stenciled pieces add a structural support that is absent in some of your more gestural works, and they work especially well here. The figure with the feminine symbol (Luminescence) is a more overt or didactic combination of this interplay - in this piece there is a more reciprocal flow between the painterly surface and hard edged letter shapes. I also find myself amused by the title. The scrambled letters in that circumstance could be interpreted d as dyslexic, but it also reminds us that for a purely visual image there are often no words.