Beloved

Artist/Creator: Bernadette Phan (Artist)
Date: 2019
ID #: BG5990

Physical Description

Medium: oil
Support: canvas
Dimensions: 61 cm 61 cm (Object)
Object Description: Bernadette Phan's paintings explore the boundaries between what is seen and what is surrounding, a continuous negotiation between surface and background. Her use of thick oil paint in gradating colour is almost sculptural, with the texture of the stippled paint capturing light and creating its own coloured shadows. While the grid-like geometry of these works appears almost hard edged when viewed from a distance, at closer look they reveal themselves to be almost painterly fingerprints.

History

Collection: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Permanent Collection
Credit Line: Purchased with support from the Canada Council for the Arts, 2020
Related Exhibitions: Stations: Some Recent Acquisitions

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