Helen Miranda Wilson
DC Moore Gallery
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In February of 2006, Helen Miranda Wilson began to paint stripes, laid out in horizontal lines of emphatic, local color. Each line has a sureness and straightness without being rigidly defined.
The paint is not applied gesturally, but mistakes are allowed and are left to be seen. No two colors are alike, and are randomly chosen, applied in unregimented ripples of light and dark. These tonal alternations are as satisfying to see as they are when found in nature. Each picture contains a scrolled, narrative sequence that marked time as it passed,while the artist worked down the surface,
covering it from top to bottom,one color at a time.
These are simple, convincing paintings that use the same techniques and small format for which the artist has always been known. The surfaces are matte and yet have a velvety, open quality because the artist uses oil paint with no added medium and applies no final overcoat of varnish.
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from March 26, 2008 to April 26, 2008