Trine Bumiller "New Work - Half Light"
Kathryn Markel Fine Arts
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Trine Bumiller's new series layers a collage of panels with subtle color shifts, organic silhouettes and abstract patterns. Each panel is connected by a silhouette of branches supplying structure from nature's bend and stretch. As before, the artist's themes are worked through by layering opposites that develop into something: a reflection, a conversation, a flip book of memories. The reflections take place over time, broken into and marked by pages of colors from the sky. Formed from the natural landscape and celestial bulbs of light, patterns emerge and connect multiple panels of the paintings, or conversely, fade into connecting panels like moments lost to time's march. For Trine Bumiller the "Idea of loss is important - loss of childhood, landscape and memory." Bumiller's process and ritual of painting literally builds upon those reflections of loss. Using a glazing technique of applying paint in which each glaze requires a day to dry and each painting can contain as many as fifty transparent layers, Bumiller slowly develops both form and color. She describes the process as, "...an almost imperceptible progress, as in the growth of a tree or branch; the images seem to evolve organically out of the paint." From the repetition of loss and the rhythm of ritual what emerges is what Trine calls, "memorials to time and place."
[Image: Trine Bumiller "Mnemonic" (2009) Oil on canvas (5 parts), 54 x 72 in.]
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Schedule
from September 10, 2009 to October 10, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-09-10 from 18:00 to 20:00