ARTIST:
Joanne Greenbaum
Drawing becomes an all-consuming force in Joanne Greenbaum’s paintings; the ephemeral intricacy of her surfaces is fixated in her concentrated gestures. In Table of Contents, Greenbaum’s solid masses of colour swell from and dissolve into attenuated mark-making: purple and orange architectural forms spring up with sketchy velocity, the matt black ground devours the painting, its smothering energy disintegrating short of the canvas edge. The chaotic system of numbers and diagrams serves as formalist play: the pleasure of stroking silver-white over black, the frantic vivacity of red and blue squiggles dancing between a web of lines. Table of Contents reads like a lexicon of everything; an encompassing sentiment expressed in minute detail.
Joanne
Greenbaum’s graphic formations often emerge from neutral
grounds; an optical play on the floating quality of flat space,
simultaneously directing the eye deep within and back to the
surface of the painting. In Untitled, planes of colour
hover in entropic perspective; their fragmented patterns creating
a labyrinthine effect, churning anxiously in suspended space.
Jotted numbers and lines emerge in rapid succession as if
to measure this infinite form; their hurried precision lends
a sense of fragility to Greenbaum’s precarious composition. Joanne Greenbaum's Bedroom Set seduces with its sensitive contradiction of surface. Delicate lines and overlapping forms develop in a myriad of architectural suggestion; fragile colours and delicate textures vie for their position in illusionary space. It's this mystical fabrication of spatial and temporal depth which Joanne Greenbaum authors with astute deception. From fanciful ideas, false starts and misjudgements, to defiant and bold conclusions, Joanne Greenbaum incorporates the entire history of her process within her canvas. Skittishly shifting from delicately fussy sketches to voluptuous and engulfing fields, each layer proffers a palimpsest residue, thinly masking the traces of what came before. Concealing paintings within paintings, Bedroom Set teases with flirtatious volley, an abstracted peep-show of enticement and supremacy. Joanne Greenbaum’s canvases display a rarefied process of precipitance. Greenbaum’s paintings evolve through an organic process; her compositions directed by their continuously evolving forms, creating spontaneous tension through the immediacy of the artist’s hand. A deliberate lack of editing transpires as painterly confidence: each gesture contains an importance of its own realisation and ultimate contribution. In Trend Report, Greenbaum’s forms drip, spill, and overlap in competition for space: doodled numbers claim territories, while traces of lines rise defiantly through rich fields of colour. By laying bare her process, Greenbaum’s painting resonates with a sense of passing time, monumentalising the history of its own creation. Joanne Greenbaum’s playful abstractions approach painting with a sense of liberation. Primarily concerned with the formalism of plastic arts, her canvases don’t follow proscribed formulas of conventional painting, but rather continuously test and expand the possibilities by which painting can evolve. In Poster, Greenbaum’s graphic composition unfolds with its own rules of logic: bold shapes and colours are mapped out and dissected by the improbable blue-print of their design. Greenbaum’s diagram motif acts as both a structural device and an extension of her painterly consumption; her delicately drawn lines exhibit a contemplated intimacy and dimension of fantastical space, suggesting an inexhaustible microcosm of illusionary delight.
Greenbaum’s graphic formations often emerge from neutral
grounds; an optical play on the floating quality of flat space,
simultaneously directing the eye deep within and back to the
surface of the painting. In Untitled, planes of colour
hover in entropic perspective; their fragmented patterns creating
a labyrinthine effect, churning anxiously in suspended space.
Jotted numbers and lines emerge in rapid succession as if
to measure this infinite form; their hurried precision lends
a sense of fragility to Greenbaum’s precarious composition. Joanne Greenbaum's Bedroom Set seduces with its sensitive contradiction of surface. Delicate lines and overlapping forms develop in a myriad of architectural suggestion; fragile colours and delicate textures vie for their position in illusionary space. It's this mystical fabrication of spatial and temporal depth which Joanne Greenbaum authors with astute deception. From fanciful ideas, false starts and misjudgements, to defiant and bold conclusions, Joanne Greenbaum incorporates the entire history of her process within her canvas. Skittishly shifting from delicately fussy sketches to voluptuous and engulfing fields, each layer proffers a palimpsest residue, thinly masking the traces of what came before. Concealing paintings within paintings, Bedroom Set teases with flirtatious volley, an abstracted peep-show of enticement and supremacy. Joanne Greenbaum’s canvases display a rarefied process of precipitance. Greenbaum’s paintings evolve through an organic process; her compositions directed by their continuously evolving forms, creating spontaneous tension through the immediacy of the artist’s hand. A deliberate lack of editing transpires as painterly confidence: each gesture contains an importance of its own realisation and ultimate contribution. In Trend Report, Greenbaum’s forms drip, spill, and overlap in competition for space: doodled numbers claim territories, while traces of lines rise defiantly through rich fields of colour. By laying bare her process, Greenbaum’s painting resonates with a sense of passing time, monumentalising the history of its own creation. Joanne Greenbaum’s playful abstractions approach painting with a sense of liberation. Primarily concerned with the formalism of plastic arts, her canvases don’t follow proscribed formulas of conventional painting, but rather continuously test and expand the possibilities by which painting can evolve. In Poster, Greenbaum’s graphic composition unfolds with its own rules of logic: bold shapes and colours are mapped out and dissected by the improbable blue-print of their design. Greenbaum’s diagram motif acts as both a structural device and an extension of her painterly consumption; her delicately drawn lines exhibit a contemplated intimacy and dimension of fantastical space, suggesting an inexhaustible microcosm of illusionary delight.
