Antoinette Wysocki: The Bolt Where Cupid Fell 2.0 - mixed media, collage and gold leaf on archival rag; 36”x44” (framed).

Antoinette is shown creating this piece at the Grand Re-opening of Neiman Marcus, White Plains.

Artist Statement:

My intention is to create abstract paintings that indulge in materials and focus on the expressive process itself. Balanced with details of organic imagery, evocative symbols and text, to address overall subjective translation and perception while addressing impediments of memory association.

I've worked to develop a process combining various materials, chance, control and analysis. Part of my focus is the balance of media and absorption rate so that the various materials interact, binding or refracting from each other or the canvas itself. Each work begins with action painting, with focus around gestures and washes, balancing chance and consciousness. The second stage of control defines the abstracted imagery pulling out elements, while balancing the raw with saturated. The mixed media can alter the pieces beyond repair or become the focus of the piece itself. The process is concluded in the analysis stage where the preponderance of symbols are defined through detailed drawings and brush strokes, insertion of dialog and deciphering of imagery.

These paintings are an active engagement with the viewers sense of process, their perception of media and ground, as well as layers of allegory and abstraction. They seek to balance the subjective with the concrete, the abstracted with the detailed and the sign with the signified.

This package will be featured at our live event on Saturday, November 19, 2016. Online bidding for this item will end on Friday, November 11, 2016. Please place a reserve bid if you don't want this prize to get away at the live event. Winners will be notified on Monday, November 21, 2016!

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