#edienadelhaft

Platinum Sea(Marconi No.1), Edie Nadelhaft

Paintings from the Platinum Sea: a new series of highly detailed paintings of fragments of the surface of the North Atlantic ocean. The water is described in a muted palette made up exclusively of red, white and indigo. I try to keep the color fairly neutral, bringing about subtle changes in "temperature" and tone through minute adjustments to the proportions of these 3 components. Color is not an innate quality to water, and my omission of it in these paintings is also intended to keep nostalgic associations at bay. I adopt a perspective that is extreme, often bringing the composition to the brink of abstraction. Situational cues such as a horizon line or light source are intentionally cropped out. What remains is an unbounded section of sensual topography, the actual scale and orientation of which is unknowable and unimportant.

Platinum Sea: Head of the Meadow No.1, Edie Nadelhaft

Paintings from the Platinum Sea: a new series of highly detailed paintings of fragments of the surface of the North Atlantic ocean. The water is described in a muted palette made up exclusively of red, white and indigo. I try to keep the color fairly neutral, bringing about subtle changes in "temperature" and tone through minute adjustments to the proportions of these 3 components. Color is not an innate quality to water, and my omission of it in these paintings is also intended to keep nostalgic associations at bay. I adopt a perspective that is extreme, often bringing the composition to the brink of abstraction. Situational cues such as a horizon line or light source are intentionally cropped out. What remains is an unbounded section of sensual topography, the actual scale and orientation of which is unknowable and unimportant.