Epicenter #17 by Maude Andrade
Painting, Oil on MDF Panel
50.8 cm (20.0 inch) x 50.8 cm (20.0 inch)
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About This Work
Epicenter #17 2010 is a mixed media painting of acrylic, collage, and oil paint on board ready to hang. In this series of paintings, I use collages of ellipses under a “skin” of oil paint to explore representations of physical, metaphorical, and emotional forces.The ellipse is a departure from the precision of the circle while still maintaining the visual idea of continuity and endlessness.It is a form that is both empty and full and speaks to the many cycles seen in nature; the mysterious quality of the overlapping sculptural shapes just below the painted surface suggests a hidden other. The collaged ellipses lend their form to physical processes such as waves rhythmically hitting a beach, or ripples emanating in concentric bands from a stone thrown into a pond of water.The ellipse can be viewed as the shape sound makes, its reverberation, or the energy radiating outward through the earth’s crust at the epicenter of an earthquake. The shapes are also symbolic of cycles of death, birth, and rebirth that we experience with the seasons or through the arc of events and relationships throughout our lives.I find the ellipse to be a very female form conveying female expression, sexuality.As the oil paint dries over the ellipses, it reveals and conceals, bends and yields and mimics the processes of time and aging by either muting or defining the solid form’s edges, telling a story of implied details, in a similar way that our skin tells our personal stories. Color in these paintings adds a symbolic subtext. White is the color of winter, clarity, simplicity, expansiveness and purity.Off-white is contemplation, experience, wisdom and wholeness. Red is the color of blood, sex and love, fear, lust and danger.
MAUDE ANDRADE
Albuquerque, NM United States
My paintings transform mixed media collages into lyrical, graphic environments of nuanced color and earthy pattern. Through my personal vocabulary of geometric and natural forms, I create abstracted landscapes and narratives that map a story of place... More
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Artwork Details
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil
Support Type: MDF Panel
Artwork Height: 50.8 cm (20.0 inch)
Artwork Width: 50.8 cm (20.0 inch)
Depth: 7.6 cm (3.0 inch)
Weight: 6.0 lbs (2.7 kg)
Ready to Hang: No
Framed: No
Year Created: 2010
Signed: Yes
Signature Location: Signature and date on back panel initials on side
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