judith geichman
Judith Geichman, originally from Columbus, Ohio, currently lives and works in Chicago. She is a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Geichman returns to her hometown for an exhibition of her large scale paintings at the Mahan Gallery.
Working with a language of abstraction these current paintings have a strong affinity to natural phenomena, and are sometimes reminiscent of landscape and figural associations. Geichman works with chance and the serendipity of the moment, but the paintings are ultimately constructed over time. Marks, stains, pours, and drawing are used to visually conjure unexpected configurations that one might experience by watching clouds, reading tea leaves, or interpreting an ink blot.
"I’d like my paintings to suggest multiple levels of resemblance, multilayered world that come to fruition ultimately in the minds eye of the observer," says Judith.
In some paintings there is a reference to 18th century French pastoral scenes found in paintings and fabric, in others there is the atmosphere of an urban environment, and in still others there is the recollection of Chinese Scholar’s Rocks, that for Geichman have the ambiguity of figural and landscape associations.
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