SPACE 2 : MINA SHAFER

Exhibition dates. 29 NOV - 10 DEC 2023
Opening Reception : Thursday 30 NOV 2023, 6:00 - 8.30pm.

DIFFERENCE AND REPETITION IN FIELDS OF COLOUR

The paintings in this exhibition are influenced by Deleuze's ideas about difference and repetition. The paintings are composed of several overlapping and intersecting layers of lines and patterns within colour fields. The process involves repetition, intuition, and reflection. The repetition involves painting while listening to music, intuitively selecting colours and applying thin washes of colour until a resonating multi-layered multi-tonal colour field develops. Additionally, I draw squiggly lines and patterns that assemble and detach across the canvas to reflect my mosaic mind as it shifts from one thought to another; or to reflect the music I listen to as it shifts from one tune to silence and then another tune. I continue this process creating different plateaus of lines, patterns, washes and experiences until the painting reaches some form of resolution. My painting process involves repetition but each repetition creates a new experience thus creating ‘difference’ and new pictorial resolves.