As posted in her bio, Kianja Strobert’s mixed-media sculptures and works on paper share a coarseness of texture and an expressive line. Often working in series, Strobert strives to maintain a similar rhythm throughout each work by implementing similar color palettes and visual motifs, as in a recent series that combined sculptures of concrete blocks and terracotta shards with bold abstractions on paper rendered in vibrant autumnal hues. Her delicate and colorful works reveal a preoccupation with assuring that every edge of the composition commands an illusion of depth, perspective, light, and motion. Pushing the boundary between abstraction and figuration, Strobert’s works, like Untitled (2011), have no identifiable subject and yet are highly evocative of light and, perhaps, space.
Supplies:
-acrylic paint
-wax paper
-mixed papers
-mod podge glue
-tape
-matte/frame
-scissors
To create dried sheets of acrylic paint lay wax paper down on a counter and place thick layers of wet cheap acrylic paint on top. Allow to dry for a day and then peel the dried paint off of the wax paper. Cut, rip or slice into managable piecs and create your own Acrylic Abstraction.
Vocabluary:
Layering: a covering piece of material or a part that lies over or under another
Collage: a work of art that is made by attaching pieces of different materials (such as paper, cloth, or wood) to a flat surface
Abstraction: a general idea or quality rather than an actual person, object, or event : an abstract idea or quality
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