2019 ANNE VIEUX
Brooklyn-based artist Anne Vieux creates nonobjective paintings that allude to the fluid, morphing, liminal space of the virtual. Her prismatic compositions come from her digital experiments scanning holographic paper. The light of the scanner refracts the spectrum of the paper and records a topography of colors and forms. Pushing the limits of the image data through zooming, warping, and drawing on the computer, she then translates these forms onto canvas. Vieux’s seductively saturated palettes of purples, pinks, blues, and turquoise colors may evoke vernacular associations such as infrared weather maps, satin, or the swirling patterns found on soap bubbles, but they ultimately reflect the artist’s commitment to a serious and singular vision of abstraction.
In the past, Vieux has layered acrylic paint on top of fabric created using dye sublimation printing. The works in Immaterial, by contrast, are almost entirely hand-painted. These gorgeously complex, spectral compositions, while traditionally painted, remain fully immersed in a twenty-first century digital understanding of visuality.