Artist Explores How Surface Texture Reshapes Painting in New Mixed-Media Series
A new series of mixed media highlights the physicality of painting by employing layered acrylic mediums to produce crackle effects and diverse textures. It investigates the elements that attract viewers to a canvas, such as color, markings, and surface flaws. Texture serves as a key design component, adding movement and depth. Features like raised surfaces and crackled sections enhance visual appeal. The artwork offers different perspectives from varying distances, with natural light casting highlights and shadows. The artist promotes direct interaction, as the brushwork and textures create a sense of closeness. The creative journey remains fluid, with surfaces hinting at new possibilities, encouraging viewers to connect with the art beyond mere color and structure.
Key facts
- The artist's newest series is a mixed-media body of work centered on surface texture.
- Techniques include layering acrylic mediums, creating crackle and granular sand-like areas, and combining rough with smooth, almost translucent surfaces.
- Texture is positioned as an element of design alongside color, value, shape, and line.
- Raised surfaces catch paint differently and crackled areas allow color to settle into crevices.
- A rough passage next to a smooth glaze creates contrast before any additional color or mark is added.
- Natural light moving across a textured surface creates tiny highlights and shadows that change through the day.
- The artist states that the physical quality of textured work cannot be fully experienced from a photograph.
- Collectors are encouraged to view original artwork in person to appreciate brushwork, layers, edges, and texture.
Entities
Institutions
- Caryl Fine Art