Sharon Booma “All Space and Edges”
Campton Gallery
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Sharon Booma’s painted surfaces reflect human experience; beauty in its imperfection, mystery and spirituality. “While my instincts are to make rational and objective choices, my work remains open to the element of controlled chance—caught between physicality and delicacy, rooted in emotion, memory and imagination.”
Booma speaks of her work as being “representative of the effort to find a balance between the tangible materials that surround us and the ungraspable spiritualism that defines us as individually unique people”. It is this concept, perhaps, that causes us to respond to her paintings on such a deep and visceral level.
While the philosophy behind her work does not announce itself in literal terms, her images nevertheless have an irresistible intrigue, the ability to stir powerful emotions. Among Booma’s major influences is Henri Matisse, leader of the French Fauve movement, who believed color communicated meaning and who emphasized the bold use of vivid pigment in his work. Booma moderates the emotions of her colors through the use of shape and form, exerting careful control over the ultimate mood of her paintings.
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from September 04, 2014 to September 30, 2014