“A toucan. Maybe a wizard?”
“A toucan. Maybe a wizard?”
“A toucan. Maybe a wizard?”

Mary Ramsden

“A toucan. Maybe a wizard?”, 202133 x 25cmSign in to view price
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oil on panelPilar Corrias
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This abstract artwork features a vibrant, eclectic arrangement of bold colors and expressive brushstrokes. The canvas is dominated by various shades of pink, green, and blue, layered and intertwined to create a sense of depth and dynamism. The composition is characterized by a mix of geometric shapes and organic, gestural marks, lending a lively, improvisational quality to the piece. The overall style and technique suggest a contemporary, abstract expressionist approach, emphasizing the artists' emotive and intuitive engagement with the medium. This work likely reflects the artist's exploration of the interplay between color, form, and personal expression within the realm of abstract painting. ...

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Mary Ramsden
Artist
Mary Ramsden
B.1984

Mary Ramsden’s paintings track a ceaseless, ever-supple reckoning with her medium: its materiality and histories, its complex deals with figuration and abstraction, the points where it yields, the points where it resists. Drawing on ways of seeing that are both long-established and acutely contemporary (not least those inaugurated by new technology), there is an archaeological quality to the way she lays down, and excavates, strata of marks and pigments, buried deposits of time and space. With their audacious play of textures, surface and scale, these are paintings that insist on their own physicality, the impossibility of their reduction to mere image. Rather, like us, they belong to the world of objects, a realm of densities and depths. Ramsden has spoken of painting as ‘thinking with the hand’, and her works bear the traces of a restless, embodied cognition. Uncertainty abides, along with persistent reaching for (hard-won) self-actualisation. The intellectual and the sensory are not so much translated as transfused into form and colour. A work’s limit conditions are defined, then tested, and sometimes extravagantly breached. Where depiction is in evidence in these paintings, it has a fugitive quality, as if Ramsden’s marks were not quite willing to be wholly subsumed into the pictorial, preferring to retain a measure of autonomy as an arrangement of pigment on a support. This is a glitch that is also a feature: a way of capturing and sequencing those concrete abstractions, time and space. ...

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felt
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Pilar Corrias
Gallery
Pilar Corrias
London, London

Pilar Corrias Gallery is a contemporary art gallery owned by Pilar Corrias. The 3,800 square foot gallery in London's Fitzrovia, designed by Rem Koolhaas, is made up of two exhibition spaces, located in the heart of London's West End. Pilar Corrias opened a second London gallery space at 2 Savile Row in July 2021, designed by London and Oslo-based architect firm Hesselbrand. Since its inception, the gallery has worked with emerging and established artists with the central aim of allowing their work to grow both in terms of production of new projects and the making of new exhibitions. Pilar Corrias now represents a total of thirty-two international artists, two-thirds of whom are female. ...

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