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Judith BerryConversation2018
2018
About the Item
To trip and retrip on a piece of land, a surface, a support that sets up not a bounce but a billow, a soft surge, a reverberation where the ground is friendly, known, familiar and then questionable, transformed, odd, and unreliable.
To ponder figures, postulate objects, track, retract, probe, suggest the preposterous, erase, and efface. Then question, hold the brush, gesture, gesticulate, affirm, retract, and reaffirm the action of painting.
This show is an interrogation of my materials, methods, subjects and solutions. I pose and propose, set an object on a wave. Its ludicrous earthly references mock me. I let them sit there and proceed, drawn to yet avoiding the abyss of abstraction.
- Creator:Judith Berry (1961, Canadian)
- Creation Year:2018
- Dimensions:Height: 10 in (25.4 cm)Width: 36 in (91.44 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Montreal, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU4763161661
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