Beschreibung
How does a simple line become a horizon? When do we begin to see colors and shapes as a landscape? Michelle Jezierskis painting homes in on the tipping point at which our perception begins to oscillate between color/surface and space/representation. At that very point, she captures the essence of the landscape as such, which is not a concrete place but a metaphor for inner states of affairs. To get there, Jezierski distills what she sees in her surroundings down to the elements of paintingshapes and colorswhich just barely intimate a pictorial space while persistently drifting toward abstraction. The defining feature of her technique is that she layers several pictorial planes and spaces on the canvas in staggered arrangements. Perpetually discovering new ways to unsettle the visual space, as she puts it, she engenders ruptures and structures that open up multiple perspectives and a portal for reflection on ones own perception. Above all, however, the cuts lend her pictures a peculiar rhythm that powerfully pulls in the gaze, making the reader paging through this catalogue forget time and space.
