Los Angeles-based painter Heather Gwen Martin works at the edge of hard abstraction — where color becomes almost physical, with flourishes of elegant movement akin to dancing. Her palette is hot and bright, with hand-mixed tones that play off each …
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About the Artwork
Unread Messages addresses both the daily anxiety of an overflowing inbox and something more existential — the communicational space between us as we try, and often fail, to send and receive messages across every channel and medium. As Dodge puts it: “The dance of intention and interpretation is forever a noisy one that often seems miraculous in how well it seems to work.”
Produced by the artist and master printer Luther Davis at BRT Printshop — now Powerhouse Arts Printshop — using serigraphy, a process in which ink is pressed through a mesh screen one color at a time.
