Attach (color), 2018 Woodcut with watercolor on Mulberry paper. 38 x 26 in.
The Barbara Walters Gallery at the Barbara Walters Campus Center part of Sarah Lawrence College is pleased to present its latest exhibit, Working Paper by Julie Abraham. The exhibit runs through March 22.
Language and color are her subjects. In her mind’s eye, Minimalism meets "Pattern and Decoration," Gertrude Stein meets the Albers (Anni and Josef).
As a printmaker, she paints through printing. As a painter, she threads through printed grids. Printing, she turns text into drawing, language into pattern. In her painting, shades make statements of their own.
The geometries that result are rarely read as letters (even when they once were)—more often as evocations of the flat space of architectural plans, the bulk of the built environment, or the technological mazes in which we live. https://www.sarahlawrence.edu/news-events/events/detail/10286
