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Traywick Contemporary
November 12 - January 21, 2017Info
895 Colusa Avenue Berkeley, CA 94707 Google Map »
Cynthia Ona Innis, Ridge, 2016, acrylic, ink and fabric on wood panel, 11 x 14"
While Innis’ work is very much about landscape, she is also interested in that fleeting moment when one thing becomes another. In her new series, Innis blurs the boundaries of abstraction and realism, and combines techniques of both painting and collage, all within an aesthetic that is simultaneously linear and painterly. She fluently intertwines multiple viewpoints, distances and scales within each piece. Soaring sky becomes sweeping land becomes endless sea, while at the same time, blazing sun dims to flat light and then fades into obscuring darkness. Innis’ studio practice begins with the physical process of making her materials. Using both additive and reductive techniques, she paints, dyes and bleaches various fabrics and textiles to create areas of drips, spills and washes. Broad swaths of saturated pigment and thin strips of diffused color align and collide under multiple coats of varnishes and paint mediums. The resulting surface has a palpable texture and a striated depth that mirrors the geologically dynamic locales that are the artist’s inspiration. Innis presents our ever-changing surroundings as a tactile and a visual experience that seamlessly fuses light, time and motion.