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Lisa Nankivil

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April Fools, 2006

April Fools, 2006
April Fools, 2006

Oil on canvas / 32 x 42 in.

April Fools, 2006 | Media List


Statement

----Private collection

Reviews

The striped format of Lisa Nankivil’s sumptuous abstract paintings evolved while she was concentrating on certain figure-ground relationships in her work. “I was searching for ways to make the background as essential as the image,” she says. “I began to explore qualities such as motion, ascendance, and hierarchy through painted stripes, and eventually the image fell away leaving me to navigate the implications of the vertical and the horizontal by painting only the orientations with stripes.” A phrase in the art writings of John Berger—“Home is where the vertical meets the horizontal”—helped her as she began to explore the physical, psychological, and spiritual dimensions of her discovery. “To me,” she says, “this phrase refers to a sense of spiritual well being: finding ground in which to prosper.”

--William Peterson

Courtesy Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
www.gpgallery.com