"Vibrations" Exhibition Description

"...Vibration is the formative agent behind all material shapes."  --Wassily Kandinsky

Anne Marchand presents a new body of paintings with the impact of bright eruptions of color surging on the canvases. Ms. Marchand's themes revolve around the movement of energies in the universe using color rhythms and melodies accented by bold linear elements.

Whether experiencing audible rhythms or the inner stirrings of the heart, movement is dominant in these works. A richly textured surface adds a tactile quality to her purely abstract paintings as well as to the Cityscapes.

Forces are at work, alive and vigorous in this artist's canvases. She employs a process of layering paint to achieve intriguing contrasts of light/dark, warm/cool, hard/ soft edges, radiance and mystery which inhabit the paintings. These works are strong colorful impressions of life; the energies of life with it's rich display of movements, impulses, wanderings both chaotic and peaceful.

Marchand shows us a world where color forms influence, allude to and mimic, an array of moods, questionings and energies.

The Cityscape Paintings vibrate with colors, moving the viewer into the open space of a painting where the architecture becomes geometry and colors reverberate with excitement, liveliness, and pattern. The color becomes a metaphor for the tensions, stresses, confidence, joy and wonder of the people and the structures they occupy. Bold color lines emphasizes and contain the shapes that create pleasing patterns across the surfaces.

Marchand uses the elements of color, line, pattern and movement to create a mysterious and graphic statement about vibrations in the inner world of sensations and the outer world of vision.

Rhythms
oil on canvas
52 x 52"
$6,500