Rotary II Gina Werfel building up to 20 coats

building up to 20 coats of very thin matt paint to achieve the same saturation as her previous works with raw acrylic pigments

a simple still-life situation but shot twice

Surrealism and Pop

His fresh and vibrant aesthetic position occupies a space between Abstract Expressionism

Rotary II Gina Werfel building up to 20 coatsThe Rotary paintings series focus on a shallow, mostly monochromatic surface that include bas relief planes locked together against a more fluid, painterly background. The dripped surface of that background is only seen through small openings, or gaps between the flat, assembled forms. The tension of overlapping foreground shapes and the contrary background treatment is accentuated by the high key yellow color that pushes the composition forward