October 10 - November 4, 2024
From Laura Rathe Fine Art:
“Language is not a tool we have, it is a shapeshifter, a being that lives with us, walks and talks with us
and has its own business and intentions.” -Anne Carson
Part of the exhilaration I acquire from painting is being able to see shifts within myself manifested into a
physical reality. The most truthful form of expression I have found in my life this far has been the abstract
language of painting. Self discovery is fluid and when I am painting I can see worlds within myself taking
shape across their varied surfaces. When the act of looking creates optical overload the viewer is led
back to the concrete realities of colour, pigment and the relief of negative space. Fields of watery
pigment-stained panels have been created as intermediate moments that unify the process of creation.
The paintings speak on their own emotional terms that evade logic and invite limitless interpretations.
Raised in the 80s in a rural area without internet or tv, I had little exposure to foreign languages. My
father was a Pentecostal pastor and my earliest memory of a “foreign” language was the speaking of
tongues. I was taught that praying in tongues was a way to bypass the mind and communicate a divinely
inspired language with an utterance of the spirit. This early understanding of using language to bypass
words has been deeply imprinted on me and it has since manifested itself in new ways, influencing my
abstract expression.
Reception: October 10, 2024 | 6–9 pm
Laura Rathe Fine Art - Houston (Westheimer Location)
4444 Westheimer Road
Houston, 77027 Texas
713.527.7700
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