Maria Farrar
I found this artist, Maria Farrar, in Art basel hong kong 2018. Born Philippines, 1988, lives and works in London Maria Farrar’s paintings combine art historical and contemporary influences, traversing가로지르다 multicultural styles and art-making processes. Born in the Philippines and raised in Japan, her canvases clearly display the legacy of her formative engagement with calligraphy, which now pushes to the surface through masterful, singularly descriptive brushwork. She analogises her painting process, an instinctive deployment 배치 of form to ground, object to negative space, as akin to the apocryphal출처불분명한 stories of Michelangelo confronted with blank hunks of virgin marble, that through a process of reduction – a taking away – that forms inherently contained within the medium are revealed. Similarly, Farrar thinks of subjects and painterly gestures that might best evoke them, then follows the path dictated by minimum intervention. Her resulting, characteristicall...