CHROMA SHAPE Painting

Caroline lives in the UK and has a studio in London. Since graduating with an MA in Painting from Chelsea School of Art Caroline has exhibited in a numerous group and solo shows in London, New York, Toronto, Paris & Miami. She has curated several successful exhibitions in the contemporary London art scene and recently curated the 3 person exhibition ‘Shape Chroma’ at Tension Fine Art, London. Over the years her work has been collected by a number of private collectors as well as corporate collections, including The Contemporary Arts Society, Neuberger & Berman New York, Fidelity Financial, London, Lehman Brothers, and JP Morgan Cazenove and the Groucho Club in Soho, her works are included in their contemporary collection. Artist Statement Caroline List’s recent paintings and sculptural works are an inquiry into colour, light, form and illusory space, exploring the opticality of simultaneous colour contrast and its emotive visual impact. “Working on linen, board, paper and aluminium Caroline List creates luminous paintings full of sensuous hues that explore the spatial qualities of colour in relationship to form and ground, defined by their differing absorbances. Drawing on early 20th century abstraction and virtual screen photography her work implicitly refers to landscapes, organic shapes and atmospheric light. Using high key pigments and fluorescents full of transparency and opacity her works, despite their sophisticated geometry, create links to the saturated colour fields of Rothko and the spiritual, other worldly light of Caspar David Friedrich.” Review ‘Shape Chroma’ Artlyst – Sue Hubbard (2021) Recent work is categorised into three series, ‘Chroma Shape’, ‘Chroma Sphere’ and ‘Light Chroma ’, which reference both Modernist geometric abstraction and the spatial language of landscape. The perception of colour and space is explored through atmospheric light shifts, seen in contrast to hard edged shapes, this push and pull of the picture plane suggests distant horizons or colourscapes, an exploration of depth of field, form, and ground. This play with the optically of the picture plane and the tricks of painting make reference to the infinite, the sublime. Framing devices such as the Renaissance tondo, tromp l’oeil and Modernist compositional conventions have informed this series.