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My newest work shows evidence of a shift: rectilinear shapes are now a bit off-kilter, seem to recede or advance in space, or just shoot off the surface. No longer do these shapes rest primarily on a canvas edge, but sometimes wing out into a different kind of space, one in which the viewer may feel disoriented or off-balance. These paintings seem to represent conditions that are more contingent, dependent on something outside themselves. As the viewer moves around the physical space of the room to change viewing distance and location, the paintings sometimes change as well. It’s a dialogue in which space and time unfold in the viewer’s perception in ways that are both optical and physically tied to the body. The work is therefore open to many viewpoints and subjectivities – to the shifting ground beneath our mental assumptions. Everything moves and changes, all is mutable and everything can be in and out of bounds.
karen schifano 2008
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