ALEXANDRA FINKELCHTEIN

alexafinke@yahoo.ca

“Ibelieve art is meant to register what an artist thinks because the Universe manifests itself through the artist’s work. In the 19 century, artists began to understand that art is more than a demonstration of skills in the persuasion of likeness. Unlike artists rendering what they see or what their cameras do, I receive my ideas in meditation. I make works using patterns of clearly separate individual lines of colors (by acrylic paint in this body of works).

Using linear patterns, I pursue more than one goal, once aiming to create a sense of movement that would draw viewers’ eyes endlessly around the picture plan to bring spectators to attempt to match my view of the subject to one they know. Moreover, my deconstruction of figures creates a sense of drama, first in similarity in qualities between support and painting media, both having translucent nature, as a semitransparent paint on the acrylic glass painted in the back; second, in loose portraying of the human body configuration – some parts missed others multiplied.”