Cracks & Fissures #2, 2009 - Judith Belzer
About the Work
About Cracks & Fissures #2
This painting, like a tree's blueprint, is from the artist's series Order of Things, inspired by Michel Foucault's book of the same title that explores inquiry into underlying conditions of truth based upon relative episteme. The artist ...Read More
This painting, like a tree's blueprint, is from the artist's series Order of Things, inspired by Michel Foucault's book of the same title that explores inquiry into underlying conditions of truth based upon relative episteme. The artist explores patterns in nature in a similar way, going deeper and deeper to reveal "cracks" and "fissures" that usually go unnoticed. Read Less
About the Artist
About Judith Belzer
In muted, deep earth tones, the artist Judith Belzer paints nature as a blueprint, delicately magnetized from a microscopic eye. Described as combining scientific naturalism ...Read More
In muted, deep earth tones, the artist Judith Belzer paints nature as a blueprint, delicately magnetized from a microscopic eye. Described as combining scientific naturalism with expressionist abstraction, her up-close focus speaks to her fascination with patterns in the earth, particularly the tree, and her quest to expose their interconnectedness with our own lives. "I'm interested in nature," Belzer says, "not as a remote romantic idea but something that's related to our everyday life."
Trees are "the part of the landscape I relate to most," Belzer says, "as another horizontal on the vertical plane," and her multiple series of trees can attest to this thought. In The Inner Life of Trees, the artist zeros in on the trunk and bark of the tree, on line, light, and texture, that from far away appears like an aerial landscape. Her series Order of Things, inspired by Michel Foucault's 1966 book The Order of Things—an inquiry into the conditions of our relative episteme—delves into patterns and the notion of rediscovery; a small piece of bark could be a giant glacier with cracks, or a tree trunk appears as kaleidoscopic rings.
Belzer has had solo exhibitions at the Sonoma County Museum, George Lawson Gallery, and Morgan Lehman Gallery, among others. She has had group exhibitions at institutions such as the Arnot Art Museum, the Pelham Art Center, and the Valerie Carberry Gallery.Read Less
Trees are "the part of the landscape I relate to most," Belzer says, "as another horizontal on the vertical plane," and her multiple series of trees can attest to this thought. In The Inner Life of Trees, the artist zeros in on the trunk and bark of the tree, on line, light, and texture, that from far away appears like an aerial landscape. Her series Order of Things, inspired by Michel Foucault's 1966 book The Order of Things—an inquiry into the conditions of our relative episteme—delves into patterns and the notion of rediscovery; a small piece of bark could be a giant glacier with cracks, or a tree trunk appears as kaleidoscopic rings.
Belzer has had solo exhibitions at the Sonoma County Museum, George Lawson Gallery, and Morgan Lehman Gallery, among others. She has had group exhibitions at institutions such as the Arnot Art Museum, the Pelham Art Center, and the Valerie Carberry Gallery.Read Less
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