Julie Gross
Gallery:
Metaphor Contemporary Art
Title of Work:
#2 gouache study on paper
Date:
2006
Medium:
Gouache on paper
Dimensions:
7.5" x 7.5"
This is a gouache study for a larger painting in oil. Since 1998 I have been using compasses, making pencil studies which choreograph a network of circular forms. These originally were based on a sine wave, or ‘s’ curve and play with an interest in centrifugal/centripetal forces, in edges that set up tension as well as flow. Circles remain or morph into other shapes. In the paintings, color fleshes out these structures in gouache or oil. Color decisions begin intuitively and build, based on desire for either harmonic or dissonant relations. I balance using what I know and ‘what I don’t’ about color, allowing it to declare itself, yet keeping surprise in the equation. The surfaces are precise and uninflected, allowing subtle spatial interaction to be revealed. I want the images to act as suspended, yet connected slices of light, breathing, tense, emergent
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Approximate Market Value:
$750