Eva Stimson Clark
Gently disrupting spaces and environments with abstract paintings.
This is my current creative practice. Arriving at this truth arose from experimentation, play, chance, courage, audacity, shifts, choices and acceptance. My aim is for my paintings to become an encounter within and beyond their own boundary. Travelling between inside and outside, my work is an invitation to sense spaces with this unfamiliar and bizarre form.
My abstractions come from experiments with digital drawing, chance colour application and systems of rotation on a structure of geometric formalism. The interior space of algorithmic filters in a computer program cannot be physically entered by us, but in transposing digital drawings into the materiality and action of painting, I entice these images out into our space.
I am interested in non-objective painting as a language of energy. A becoming that dances around intuition, consciousness and presence. My paintings form and grow from a core of recycled detritus, weaving in and out of spaces that are digital, material, historical, theoretical and metaphysical.
While galleries have been closed through 2020, it has been necessary to consider other spaces for our art and to look for locations alternate to the white cube, freeing painting from the vertical wall to convey its own ‘beingness’ and making do with what we have in an ongoing investigation with other fields of operation. In bringing awareness to our environment through painting and installation, I hope to encourage deep and essential understanding of what is inside and outside all of us.
Not Pretending Anything, 2020
Acrylic on handmade paint support (recycled cardboard, recycled paper, glue and gesso)
420mm x 300mm x 20mm
Conditions Being Perceived While Not Pretending Anything, 2020
Digital photograph of an installation
Dimensions variable
An Uncaused Joy, 2020
Acrylic paint on handmade paint support (recycled cardboard, recycled paper, glue and gesso)
400mm x 320mm x 20mm
Surrender for an Uncaused Joy, 2020
Digital photograph of an installation
Dimensions variable
