Francesca DiMattio Exhibition
Salon 94
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Salon 94 presents a two-part solo exhibition by New York based painter Francesca DiMattio. At Salon 94 she will show several small studies of heads. These paintings feature a pared down palette of red, black, and white. In White Out and Black Out, the canvases become palimpsests, as she uses large monochromatic expanses to obscure other thickly applied passages to create new and ghostlike forms.
DiMattio is interested in creating a sense of slippage in her paintings. She vacillates between abstraction and figuration, never settling for one or the other. The objects in her paintings never quite remain discreet; they morph and converge in often disturbing ways. She invites the viewer in with easily identifiable, seemingly benign chairs and lace patterns, only to disrupt the visual framework and sense of order. In a seductively logical, organized vision the viewer is forced to question the reality of the visual – and of painting itself.
[Image: Francesca DiMattio "Black Out" (2008) oil and acrylic on canvas "102 x 84 inch."]
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Schedule
from February 09, 2009 to March 13, 2009