Nicole Katsuras: Painter's Paradise

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Nicole Katsuras, "Gemstone Book," 2019

oil on canvas, 72" x 48"

Nicole Katsuras: Painter's Paradise

Opening Reception: Saturday November 9, 2-4 pm

Nicole Katsuras’ approach embraces various past traditions in art history while attempting to create a new formal vocabulary for her creative endeavors. Informed by the nuances of the oil medium and a plethora of visual stimulus, Katsuras’ extruded paint technique operates in tandem with her open-ended source material to compose evocative images that collapse simplistic distinctions of genre to transcend the inherent limits of pictures.

An interest in aesthetic semantics and systems of meaning propels Katsuras' experimentation in mark-making to create an expanding visual language of extrusions, brushstrokes and other varied applications. With her high impasto, jewel-like palettes and organic forms, the artist's practice speaks to a persistent underpinning force, one which expands through exuberant gestures outward from the two-dimensional space of her canvasses.

Katsuras' gradient, multi-tone surfaces and interacting forms shift focus on the picture plane, functioning at once as abstract interpretations of the psyche and observational remarks on the harmony of proportion, value and texture, Katsuras' compositions render palpitating spatial tensions with dynamic movements, voluptuous lines and frenetic streaks of colour which layer to build toward a sublime release.