State of the Art Gallery » Barbara Mink http://soag.org live artfully Wed, 16 May 2012 11:22:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Timelines http://soag.org/timelines-2/ http://soag.org/timelines-2/#comments Tue, 01 May 2012 16:39:10 +0000 barbara http://soag.org/?p=3798 I have chosen a radical new direction for my current work. My previously muscular, vigorously chromatic, and heavily layered paintings have evolved in the direction of the spare, the muted, and the geometric. Using unprimed canvas and linen into which the paint soaks, as well as floats above, I am taking a new measured and mathematical approach in which the neutral palette complements natural linen; the intentional shapes and less intentional color masses speak to decisively black lines. Juxtaposing the large with the small, line with color, square with circle, intuitive with cerebral, I strive to construct a new world of inventive and playful, but always purposeful, content. Number 1 Back Bay El Alamillo Number 3 Marina del Rey Petit Pont Carnivale Number 19 Shadow Puppets Carlsbad Pearl River Necklace Under the Big Top ]]> http://soag.org/timelines-2/feed/ 0 Event Horizons http://soag.org/event-horizons/ http://soag.org/event-horizons/#comments Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:53:01 +0000 barbara http://soag.org/?p=1927 You Can't Win You Can't Break Even You Can't Quit the Game Criticality First String You Can't Get There (From Here) On November 6 SOAG opens a new solo show by Barbara Mink. “Event Horizons” features mainly large-scale abstracts in acrylics and oils.

Mink says this body of work is the culmination of her thinking about connections between painting and science.

“Ten years ago I founded an annual winter festival which features performers in both the  arts and sciences, so thinking about creative synergies is often on my mind. Painting has always been a part of my life, but this past year I tried an experiment: framing my work with concepts in physics and math.

At first I veered strongly toward rather literal connections but I soon became uncomfortable with the self consciously didactic results. I ended up naming the works in “Event Horizons” more playfully, so the titles touch only lightly on the paintings.

With a nod to the Romantics and Abstract Expressionism, my work rests on the energy of the gesture, the visible trace of the process, and the coherence of carefully controlled elements, with textures and densities ranging from thickly layered to ephemeral.”

State of the Art is located at 120 W. State Street in Ithaca.  Hours are Wed. – Fri., 12-6pm and Sat. & Sun., 12-5pm.  The gallery is ADA accessible and there is curbside parking available.  Contact information for the gallery is 607-277-1626 and www.soag.org.

Closeups of Paintings

Opening Night of Events Horizon

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