NYAB Event - Katia Santibañez "New Work"

Katia Santibañez "New Work"

Danese Corey

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Meditating on nature and geometry, Katia Santibañez’s paintings and drawings reveal the intimacy of her hand and mind. In an exemplary marriage of Apollonian and Dionysian sensibilities, Santibañez’s work is both a rational examination of the grid, the core of 20th century reductivist aesthetics, and a distillation of the organic, the natural world– a skein of anatomical tendons and ligaments, and the meandering sensuality of ductile line. While works in the exhibition like "First Glimpse" and "Between Caresses" also yield implicit associations with the green world— spindly saplings, ferns, vines, and roots— others, like "Meeting Yaddo," "Following the Path," "Night in August" and "A Touch of Fall" appeal to the rhythms and cadences of textiles, conflating foreground and background and disturbing the assumed spatial relationship between them. Painted in acrylic, on wood no larger than 38 by 34 inches, the works’ compacted imagery aggressively defy the literal dimensions of the painting itself. They assert the raw energy of contrasting colors and the excitement of complexity made palpable.

[Image: Katia Santibañez "Meeting Yaddo" (2007) acrylic on wood 16 x 12 in.]