The painting features a striking, monochromatic palette of various shades of green, evoking a weathered, wooden surface. The brushstrokes are bold and expressive, creating a sense of depth and texture across the canvas. While the subject matter is minimal, the artwork's emphasis lies in the exploration of color, light, and the inherent qualities of the medium. This abstract piece appears to be a study in the materiality of paint, reflecting the artist's interest in the interplay between color, surface, and the viewer's perception. ...
Angela Bidak reflects on themes of memory, identity, and transformation through ethereal, mist-like figures and recurring horizon lines that entwine representation and abstraction. Drawing from her upbringing in Niagara Falls, New York—a place known for its natural beauty and complex histories—she creates layered oil paintings that hover between decay and ascension, flesh and field. Her process is both additive and subtractive, excavating the white grounds to the surface to create blooms, hazes, and striations that capture and filter light, while deeper hues veil and shape her compositions. The horizon lines in her work form minimalist grids stretching in all directions, generating a flickering effect between pictorial imagery and surface texture. This creates a cascading internal perspective that shifts between pure abstraction and subtle figuration, evoking landscapes that drift toward the image as frames or scrolls caught in glitched suspension. Bidak’s practice delves into the boundaries of the feminine body and the natural world, inviting contemplation on the ephemeral nature of existence and the interplay between materiality and immateriality. ...
