Karen Cronje Insurgency, 2017 Oil on canvas 135 x 135 cm R25,000
Surface Tension explores a dystopian view of the contemporary world as a
The intuitive process of painting mirrors the inscription of surface tensions
dark site of disorder – as a complex system of man-made tensions that are
by way of layering and mark-making across the painting surface, seeking to
inscribed on the surface of the landscape. It necessarily involves a fraught
disrupt the tensile expectations of pictorial space. Ambiguity and the
intersection of human interaction and the environment, and posits the
mystery of intangible natural phenomena often form the starting point for
landscape as a fractured and constantly shifting entity removed from the
these works, which are further informed by the digital manipulation of
sublime, contained visions that inhabit memory.
multiple visual references.
Karen Cronje Toil II, 2017 Oil on canvas 135 x 135 cm R25,000
Karen Cronje Diffusion of Responsibility, 2017 Oil on canvas 110 x 138 cm R22,000
Karen Cronje Reversion I, 2017 Oil on canvas 61 x 61 cm R6,500
Karen Cronje Reversion II, 2017 Oil on canvas 61 x 61 cm R6,500
Karen Cronje Burden, 2017 Oil on canvas 138 x 110 cm
R22,000
Karen Cronje Complicity, 2017 Oil on canvas 101 x 76 cm R12,000
Karen Cronje Collusion, 2017 Oil on canvas 101 x 76 cm R12,000
Karen Cronje Elegy, 2017 Oil on canvas 101 x 76 cm R12,000
Karen Cronje Stomata , 2017 Oil on wood 90 x 180 cm R27,000