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Painting, Oil on Other
Size: 54 W x 44 H x 2 D in
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ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Oil on stretched silk. The layering of transparent pours of oil paint create this painting. This work is part of the Soudan series based on the alchemical transformation of minerals in the ancient waters of the mine. The Soudan paintings were based on the recent geological findings in the Soudan Iron Mine, Tower, Minnesota. The found imagery from the minerals in the mine was a departure point for the abstract works. The ancient waters in the mine hosts organisms that formed 2.7 billion years ago, when a sea was thought to have covered the region. Geological formations found in the mine are similar to photographic imagery found on the surface of Mars. The chemical processes in the ancient waters tie to my use of alchemy in my studio. I also have a personal tie to the Tower area as I have spent many summers in nearby Ely, Minnesota. The paintings use stretched transparent silk as a structure. The silk was used as a metaphor for the translucence of water. The oil paint is poured, pooled and manipulated to form a frozen moment of chemical transformation.
Original Created:
2016
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Painting:
Oil on Other
Original:
One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:
54 W x 44 H x 2 D in
Frame:
Not Framed
Ready to Hang:
Not applicable
Packaging:
Ships in a Crate
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Virginia Bradley
United States
« 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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