Sunday, September 29, 2013

Fiona Ray, paintings


I recently came across Fiona Rae's work.  Her recent paintings are lush, large-scale abstractions with poppy, fluorescent lines running across the surface.  Layered paint, dripping paint, imagery riffing off Anime and Asian-scroll painting make her work really fast and catchy - particularly the paintings with a deep black background foregrounded by exploding efflorescence.  


Rae came to prominence in London of the late 1980s as one of the Young British Artists, a loose group of artists including Damien Hirst and Chris Ofili.   To hear about her aesthetic read her interview.


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