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Play Santa 11a Painting
United States
Painting, Oil on Paper
Size: 14 W x 17 H x 0.1 D in
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About The Artwork
Oil on Duralar Archival Film The ongoing Playa Santa Series is comprised of works on paper created in Playa Santa, Puerto Rico. Playa Santa is a small fishing village in the southwest corner of Puerto Rico, where I spend the winter working in a roof top studio. The panoramic views of Caribbean turquoise water collide with vivid skies to create endless painting combinations. Other influences include the local bioluminescent bays and underwater sea life. The sun’s 95-degree heat is the perfect alchemical agent to transform oil paint. The process includes many thin organic paint layers poured on top of one another. The painting is then left in the direct sun light where the mineral spirits evaporate and the oil paint residue becomes the final painting. This process emphasizes “chance and order.” I am not in control of the painting but have to work with the “chance” of the pour. I then edit the painting to create “order.” Some final paintings resolve quickly with three of four layers of paint, while others seem to encompass many lives before they are completed. ¬
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Painting:Oil on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:14 W x 17 H x 0.1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships Rolled in a Tube
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« The alchemical and physical processes of painting are the foundation of my creative practice. » Virginia Bradley is a distinguished American contemporary, abstract painter. Bradley's research into natural phenomena, geological and oceanographic formation serves as a starting point for her abstract works. Like an alchemist she transforms the work through the use of diverse materials and physical acts. Virginia adds and subtracts into the painting surface by pouring paint, sanding, drawing and printing while simultaneously experimenting with chemical reactions to the surface. Thus her studio becomes a laboratory for experimentation, an athanor for the interaction of diverse materials. She repeats these processes until the piece evolves into a finished state of multiple luminous layers, referring to water, the richness of the air and the unknown and attaining a higher level of physicality and contemplation.
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