ANNIE SHINN
BOTH SIDES OF THE SKY
Throughout her career Shinn has engaged in painting through the lens of abstract landscapes; shifting aesthetics of her work in an ongoing investigation of perspective. In her latest series, Shinn continues to expound on this theme but breaks away from her previous practice of abstract oil painting by experimenting with dye: a challenging, yet creative process that has developed into an almost ritualistic method of building layer upon layer with paint and deconstructing these layers by dying the canvas again and again. The dyed and painted canvases evolve into colorful, ethereal worlds with no clear up or down, left or right. Each piece invites movement across and around it. Striations radiate from multiple horizon lines like topographical cross sections or horizonless landscapes.
Shinn explained, “My previous landscapes are fairly planned out, I have control of every brushstroke. They’re still intuitive, but I generally know where they’re going. This new process is a different kind of freedom.” Shinn’s nuanced understanding of color accounts for and embraces the unavoidable contingencies that come with working with such a mercurial medium as dye. The spontaneous working process has given way to an expanded vocabulary of visual motifs in the articulation of natural abstraction.
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