Exploration of Floating: In Places and Spaces

In the acrylic on canvas paintings created in 2002, and in the mixed media works, created in 2003, I intended to involve my viewers in a dialogue with the bold forms that float throughout each surface. The hard edge forms that recede and project into the viewers’ space offer movement and ambiguity.

Soft grainy washes and glazing, along with a highly saturated palette, makes a surface that is textural. I frequently juxtapose this texture with matte areas of pigment.

The emotional content of these bright paintings ranges from the playful, to meditative, to highly charged.

Realities are intentionally ambiguous as the forms come forward and recede. Specific places are referenced, but meditative places of the mind are also present in these works.

As always, my viewers’ opinions are of importance to me and I value their personal interpretations of these paintings

Joyce Wenglowski