Laura Atria

Visual Art – Miami

Through extracting figures I find a closer relationship with them. By taking subjects out of their context and relating them to color, I find a new, more personal meaning. Through color theory and the manipulation of paint I aspire to evoke human emotion. The paint is applied thickly, often by palette knife, and twirled together, mixing and moving on the canvas as it pleases. The under-painting is often revealed through the removal of wet paint in a staccato like motion. By activating the entire canvas I take the viewer on a visual roller-coaster, going in and through the paint. Submerging thought and fluid movement into one.