Per Adolfsen “The Ribbons That Tie Us”

532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel

[Image: Per Adolfsen "Transparent" (2018) acrylic canvas, 120 x 80cm]

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A marked break with Adolfsen’s previous emotionally charged acrylic paintings that merged representation, abstraction, and text (previously exhibited at 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel), the contemplative oil paintings in The Ribbons That Tie Us demonstrate the artist’s evolving and deepening commitment to using the medium as tool for breaking past stereotype and false exteriors in order to know other people and one’s self. The neutral palette and minimal backgrounds allow the viewer to be fully present with the people foregrounded in the paintings who are punctuated by moments of brilliant color—a lavender head scarf, crystalline blue eyes.