Marsha Solomon​

Prelude in Yellow and Green: Acrylic on canvas

Star Formation: Acrylic on canvas

Echoes: Acrylic on canvas

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Artist Statement

My series of abstract paintings titled began when I started to use thinned acrylic paint as color stains to form a central atmospheric shape. These "Centers," existing at first as fields of pure color emerging from an undefined ground, would then be shaped by semi-opaque passages of paint where the texture and dramatic gesture of the surrounding strokes would contrast with the smooth effect of the stain. In relating these circular motifs to the rectangular format, I am involved in how the spatial effect of colors, their placement and sequence, lets the painting breathe and transforms it into an imaginary space where the power of suggestion resides in the expressive capacity of color and form.

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Marsha Solomon has exhibited nationally and internationally in galleries and museums for many years and has been the subject of dozens of solo and group exhibitions in the U.S., England, France, Singapore, South Korea, Italy, and Japan.  Her work has been published as book covers, in journals, and has received extensive critical attention in publications like Newsday, Long Island Pulse Magazine, Guardian UK, Chelsea News, Art Week, Suffolk News, Art Slant, and the Daily Record.

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