SUBLIME TERROR
Sublime Terror features a new series of paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Ruth Pastine and presents the newest progression of Pastine’s investigation into the perception of color through fluctuating boundaries, relationships and structures. Pastine’s painting process is informed by the systematic understanding of color developed at the Bauhaus and the 19th Century research of Michel Eugène Chevreul and his discovery of simultaneous contrast and challenges phenomena of color perception and the relativity of color and light. Pastine’s minimalist color field paintings evolve between the spontaneity and intentionality of her creative process. For Pastine, “Color itself, in its infinite beauty, constitutes the terrifying immeasurable field of light and space that it defines.”
Sublime Terror series provided Pastine with the opportunity to contextualize the interaction of abstract fields with definable passages, the tangible with the intangible. Pastine states, “There is an essential tension that drives my work, an ever-present exchange and dialogue between presence and absence, materiality and immateriality, light and space, the finite and the limitless, the known and the unknown. The unknown is always at the edge of discovery and is the on ramp to new work.”
LOCATION
DATES
Sublime Terror at Edward Cella Art & Architecture:
September 7 to October 26, 2019
