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MONIKA GRYGIER
Miercoles A Las 23:45 En La Ciudad Acrylic on Canvas 39.5” x 39.5”
Monika Grygier’s works reveal a dual commitment to
capturing the energy of the modern urban cityscape, as
well as the human soul transfixed within that phantasmagoric
moment. Like a jazz composition, her arrangements work
through the inspired disarray of the individual components.
These pieces all fit together and express a unified view
due to their disjointed energy. Her works tumble and spill
about on the canvas, where a vortex of energy summons
our focus.
Her work often echoes the straight lines and right angles
of the canvas itself, but in her visual reverberation she is
summoning the energy that is within those restrictions,
as straight lines and corners infringe on and are infringed
upon by blank space. The weight of the space between her
floating, colliding objects gives her work a dynamic energy.
Monika has said that in her work she is answering the
artist’s highest challenge of capturing the soul on canvas.
In making the leap of faith and finding a soul in our chaotic
urban arrangements, Monika has been able to convey
the order not only of our world, but of the human soul as
it perceives the universe. If art is a mirror, Monika Grygier
has taken the risk and created a divine mirror to reveal the
human soul within the world.
Websites: www.monikagrygier.com
www.Art-Mine.com/ArtistPage/Monika_Grygier.aspx
Ruth le Cheminant’s expressionist landscapes
deconstruct breathtaking visions of nature according
to a unique mode of composition. The influence of late
Cézanne can be striking, but le Cheminant’s aesthetic
sensibility involves more radical dissections of pictures’
constitutive elements. The scale of these deconstructions
owes something to Australia’s sweeping landscapes, where
she has spent most of her life and still lives and works.
Sorting through vistas of brilliant reds, soft greens and
crepuscular purples, le Cheminant uncannily emphasizes
colors and forms while maintaining a sense of the greater
whole.
She applies acrylic paints in broad strokes moving between
measured precision and expressive scrawling. At these
extremes, le Cheminant conveys eerily calm and frantically
chaotic scenes. She generally combines the two modes of
application, creating dynamic landscapes that are highly
specific yet universal. Her work resembles that of a linguist:
beginning with a fully formed and conjugated landscape, she
disassembles it into contingent parts and presents these as
the universal stuff that makes up our surroundings. There’s
no mistaking the mythic scale, elemental sparseness and
striking colors of the Australian outback and Blue Mountains
in these stylized views. Still, Ruth le Cheminant pulls those
places’ features apart in such a way that they suddenly
don’t seem so different from the American Southwest or the
Appalachian Mountains.
Websites: www.ruthlecheminant.com
www.Art-Mine.com/ArtistPage/Ruth_le_Cheminant.aspx
RUTH LE CHEMINANT
Climbing Towards Heaven Acrylic on Canvas 40” x 40”
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