Cut-Up Canvas I.6 Stephen Maine Her textured and painterly surfaces

Her textured and painterly surfaces blend areas of apparent randomness where the paint has been splashed or dripped with areas of precision

This method is especially safe for large works

He is inspired by a drive to explore unconscious feelings and repressed emotions

This work is part of a series titled "Drawing for 3 configurations'

This project

Cut-Up Canvas I.6 Stephen Maine Her textured and painterly surfacesPedersen works with acrylic paint. When painting a composition, she tends toward a limited color palette, often reducing the composition to minimal, hard edged shapes on solid colored fields. The harmonies and tensions in the work arise from different relationships: those between the colors, the patterns, and the geometric and organic shapes.