Deborah Poynton: The Human Abstract
Poynton combines finely detailed realism with loose gestural brushwork and unpainted areas in her muscular compositions. Figures and objects are isolated, removed from their contexts, or subsumed within dense tangles and accumulations. As always in her work, the eye and mind are seduced by the illusionism of the image only to be led back to the surface of the painted canvas, and awareness of the ongoing play of perception. In this way, Poynton creates the kinds of paintings she longs for 鈥� 鈥榮olid objects that are also in a state of impermanence, floating fragments, little beds, sheets pulled tight or rumpled, in which one can bury one鈥檚 head, follow paths that wind through the gaps between certainties, and allow the pain of joy鈥�.
This is Poynton鈥檚 ninth solo exhibition with the gallery.
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Poynton combines finely detailed realism with loose gestural brushwork and unpainted areas in her muscular compositions. Figures and objects are isolated, removed from their contexts, or subsumed within dense tangles and accumulations. As always in her work, the eye and mind are seduced by the illusionism of the image only to be led back to the surface of the painted canvas, and awareness of the ongoing play of perception. In this way, Poynton creates the kinds of paintings she longs for 鈥� 鈥榮olid objects that are also in a state of impermanence, floating fragments, little beds, sheets pulled tight or rumpled, in which one can bury one鈥檚 head, follow paths that wind through the gaps between certainties, and allow the pain of joy鈥�.
This is Poynton鈥檚 ninth solo exhibition with the gallery.
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