Melanie Berman
www.melanieberman.com
@melaniebermanartist
Statement:
Berman explores abstraction within expanded painting informed by ecologically discourse in relationship to her contemporary art practice. Her wooden sculptural paintings adhered to rustic organic surface and shapes that are interconnected and interdependent though a living web of relationally. These wooden hand cut shapes and surfaces are to link to the virtue of the global dynamic and to the other components of the art world. In the organic world there are no clear division between tree, roots, micro creature and water, as they can’t survive without the other. The art world its the same with curators, art dealers, critic, and artists. Nothing has changed and everything has changed in the art world regarding creativity and painting.
There is, a deeply relatable organic resonance in her paintings offering a sensory experience by co- existing with the reclaimed or salvaged wood in its materiality. She adds multiple layers of gesso, ink, acrylic oil or wax, anything that feels relevant. Her inner voice is excavated and the physical working are revealed as intermittently she removes layers of paint through the painting processes. She believes it offers a reconsideration of what painting is in relationship to other things and their intrinsic values. You could say that the marks are akin to a genetic coding or a perception of nature and our own ecological consciousness but they could also stand as the pages of a journal or inner landscapes.
www.melanieberman.com
@melaniebermanartist
Statement:
Berman explores abstraction within expanded painting informed by ecologically discourse in relationship to her contemporary art practice. Her wooden sculptural paintings adhered to rustic organic surface and shapes that are interconnected and interdependent though a living web of relationally. These wooden hand cut shapes and surfaces are to link to the virtue of the global dynamic and to the other components of the art world. In the organic world there are no clear division between tree, roots, micro creature and water, as they can’t survive without the other. The art world its the same with curators, art dealers, critic, and artists. Nothing has changed and everything has changed in the art world regarding creativity and painting.
There is, a deeply relatable organic resonance in her paintings offering a sensory experience by co- existing with the reclaimed or salvaged wood in its materiality. She adds multiple layers of gesso, ink, acrylic oil or wax, anything that feels relevant. Her inner voice is excavated and the physical working are revealed as intermittently she removes layers of paint through the painting processes. She believes it offers a reconsideration of what painting is in relationship to other things and their intrinsic values. You could say that the marks are akin to a genetic coding or a perception of nature and our own ecological consciousness but they could also stand as the pages of a journal or inner landscapes.