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CORA GLASSER: PAINTINGS |
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 Query (in gray, #1) Encaustic & Oil on Homasote on Wood Panel 30" x 15" |
 Query (in balck, #2) Encaustic & Oil on Homasote on 2 Wood Panels 36" x 21" |
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 Query (in red, #4) Encaustic on Paper 15" x 12" |
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It is the constant tension between the old and the new within construction sites of my native New York City that I find the abstract imagery for my work. There is a moment when it seems unclear whether the structure is being torn down or built up. It is this moment I capture in the painting. By reflecting upon the life cycle of seemingly permanent structures I pose the question: “What will we leave behind, and will it be remembered?” Painting on homasote, a rough-hewn building material, I use overlapping applications of beeswax. Irregular and discrete portions of the underlying surfaces result in contrasts of textures, materials and spatial areas; they compete, yet build a strangely comfortable harmony. It is in this visual tension and its tentative resolution that the question remains fundamentally unanswered, while the life cycle persists. |
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