Karen Gunderson

The Dark World of Light

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Over her forty-plus-year career, Gunderson has tackled subjects from clouds to royalty to the cosmos. Widely collected in Hollywood and New York, artist Karen Gunderson is perhaps best known for her work since the 1980s, when she transitioned from painting in colour to working only in black. Over her forty-plus-year career, Gunderson has tackled subjects from clouds to royalty to the cosmos. Her long-developed, labour intensive technique, including rigorous brushwork and paint layering, employs a range of black shades that create a unique three-dimensional effect: The multiple textures from the paint catch light and make the paintings shimmer and appear to move, alternating with shadows and highlights that illuminate her subjects—historic royal figures, bodies of water, mountains, and constellations—depending on how the viewer moves in front of each artwork.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2016-11-10
Mått320 x 325 x 13 mm
Vikt3 062 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieAbbeville Press
Antal sidor252
FörlagAbbeville Press Inc.,U.S.
ISBN9780789212320

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"This is a beautiful book, beautifully written, produced with great care and understanding [...] Frank is able to interpret Gunderson's vision and its increasingly dramatic imagery based on an original technique with sensitivity and insight rare in an art book." --Barbara Rose, art critic "Though her themes vary, perhaps the principle subject is elegance -- moral as much as aesthetic elegance."--Christopher Stackhouse, American writer and visual artist "Taking the color black as her prime subject, Gunderson's achievement is to have explored its every nuance, ranging from the spiritual to the tactile, the seen and the imagined. In darkness, Gunderson's brush reveals light itself." --David Anfam, art historian "If one thinks of Karen Gunderson only as the extraordinarily unique artist who was able to elicit infinite possibilities from cloud formations or to make us realize the intense possibilities of creating contour and form out of the intractability of black paint, this publication will reveal the limitations of those perceptions." --Lowery Sims, Curator Emerita at the Museum of Arts and Design "Through The Dark World of Light by Elizabeth Frank and Abbeville Press, we gain a rare insight into the evolution of Karen Gunderson's mastery. Her careful attention to the mechanics of brush stroke has led to her unique ability to paint with light. As we watch her paintings shift and move, we become aware of our changing vantage and the role we play in their animation. Startling that such a high level of effect can result from so little." --William Siegal Gallery