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
Like many of Bidwa’s artworks, Silence Yourself is a meditation on forms that are small but necessary. As in her paintings, various textures and subtle tonal shifts are present across the surface of the print. Small red and yellow dots dance around gray abstracted shapes like cells under a microscope. This accumulation of subtle touches amounts to an active exploration of nature and its relationship with abstraction.
Silence Yourself was printed in collaboration with the artist and Forth Estate at Axelle Editions. Each edition was created by silkscreen printing (also known as serigraphy). This method requires stenciling techniques wherein ink is pressed onto paper through deliberately exposed areas of a mesh screen one color at a time.
