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Painter to Painter (Zoom)
Diana Copperwhite and Liliane Tomasko
Wednesday 5th April at 3pm
In the second of the series Painter to Painter talks, programmed as part of Diana Copperwhite’s national touring exhibition, Onomatopoeia, Liliane Tomasko and Diana Copperwhite connect in this online talk.
Liliane Tomasko and Diana Copperwhite have a great respect for each other’s practice, and regular visitors to Highlanes Gallery will have seen Tomasko’s stellar site responsive exhibition S P E L L O F T H E W O O D in summer 2022, where Liliane also took inspiration from a work of the same title by 20th century maverick painter, Nano Reid, and may also have seen Copperwhite’s eclipse of a title, solo exhibition, in 2007, from which Six Degrees of Separation was acquired to the Collection.
Witness these two highly regarded painters in a discussion about process and practice in motion.
About:
Diana Copperwhite amalgamates images from the internet, photographs, and real life, unifying these sources in paintings that critically assess the medium’s ability to represent images, sensations and ideas. Her work has many layers and associations. She uses the square, circle and rectangle within the compositions, which reference portals, windows and screens that shift and move. For her these are echoes of early modernist painting, and contemporary ideas around memory and science and how this affects the stability of images, perception, time and audience. Diana Copperwhite, lives and works in Dublin, Ireland
Liliane Tomasko’s abstract paintings employ a distinctive, bold lyricism, with an equally unabashed sense of colour. The artist often begins with a study of the personal effects of everyday domesticity such as bedding or clothing to create work that suggests a gateway into the realms of sleep and dreaming; delving into the gulf between what we understand as the ‘conscious’ and ‘subconscious.’ Recent paintings display an increasing vitality and assertiveness, articulating an abstraction that is rooted in the physical realm but attempting a departure from it. Intense colour, subtle tone, shadows and painterly gesture are woven together in such a way that space comes in and out of focus, suspending one’s perception of them and thus emulating the clarity, or lack thereof, of dreams and memories.
Liliane Tomasko was born in Zurich, Switzerland, and lives and works in New York and Mooseurach, Germany.
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