canson opalux translucent paper large size

#Canson opalux translucent paper large size series

Monday’s image structures the beginning of the week in the studio, a visual meditation on image and language. This approach is also demonstrated in my weekly blog, ' Monday's image', where I pair a work of art with the front page of the local newspaper. Constellations of this sort allude to Walter Benjamin’s dialectical image or Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas. Such process makes you aware of the repetition of images across time. I find sources for my work in art history, newspaper feeds and photographing my environment, whether home or abroad. In others, the brushwork and painterly marks attempt to immerse the viewer within the pictorial space.įor the last several years I have focused on the fragility of the natural world, caused by human intervention, climate change, and meteorological events.

In some of the paintings, I use negative space within the composition to highlight and activate a void or gap. This technique creates an optical shift of color and reflection when viewed from different angles, in the formation of still lives and landscapes. Each work is made with a high key palette, where thin layers of acrylic and interference paint are applied to the surface of my support. These color keys are informed by my current research and act as a guide for abstract paintings and collages, on canvas, vellum and Arches paper. To begin, I apply three to four vertical, adjacent lines of transparent and opaque paint in a watercolor sketchbook to determine the palette of a future work. It is a stage where still lives and fragments of text co-exist on equal terms. Palette notes: Working in painting, I push the optical and reflective properties of color and light to activate negative space. She currently teaches at The New York Academy of Art and The College of New Jersey. Blas has taught across disciplines in Fine Art in Brussels, Belgium, Lille, France, Bergen, Norway, Washington, DC, Los Angeles, New York and New Jersey.

In 2018, she published 'Negative Space(s)', an article in the volume Monumental Troubles: Rethinking What Monuments Mean Today, University of Notre Dame, Indiana. In 2016, she produced an artist project, The Instability of Nature Morte, (Reconsidering Monument under the Throwaway Evidence of Work), for a special issue of Public Art Dialogue, T he Dilemma of Public Art’s Permanence.

#Canson opalux translucent paper large size series

Dawn Studio, an ongoing series of paintings on paper commenced while working in the early morning hours of 2020, was published in Effects Journal, March 2021.īlas has exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently at The Print Center (Philadelphia), Pierogi Gallery (NYC), Marquee Projects (Bellport, NY), and Ortega y Gasset Projects (Brooklyn, NY). In 2015, such research led to the creation of her weekly RSS feed, ' Monday's image', pairings of the front pages of newspapers with artworks from museum collections. Utilizing sources in art history, newspapers and the environment, she produces abstractions and typographical fields that speak to the fragility of the natural world and social relations. Lisa Blas is a visual artist of CHamoru/Italian-American descent working in painting, photography and installation.