detail of palstplasm.
is it too soon for me to start thinking about spring? maybe it's all the love in the air today, but i am jonesing for some warm spring air...w/ a nice yummy ice coffee from dunkies. ok, that may be pushing it, but a girl can dream. amanda hughen's sunny geometric paintings are helping me beat the winter blues and pine for spring's lovely warm ways. amanda get's her unique technique by drawing and painting on both sides of translucent mylar repeating patterns until she gets her desired effect. i think her artist's statement sums it up nicely:
"in my work, i layer geometric shapes until the forms reach a critical mass, creating a release of energy, or an uncontrolled viral growth, like a scientific experiment gone awry. single geometric shapes are repeated until they mutate into exploding swarms. the resulting form is ambiguous: is it an aberrant island viewed from above, a blossoming virus, a microscopic map of the brain, or a flower from some science-fiction realm?"
if you want a sunny dose of amanda's work check out her website, where you can see details of her pieces. they're not to be missed, i promise. amanda has a few shows coming up, the first is this fall at sf electric works.
plastiplasm.
feastory.
detail of feastory.
engorget.
untitled.
sepidemic.
