150 x 100 cm | 59 x 39 in
Subject: Abstract
Original painting in oil on canvas.
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In these arresting, monumental paintings the mood is nevertheless light – ecstatic, even – just as the application of the oil paint is light, deftly done. Compositionally her paintings will have many centres: equilibrium through multiplicity; vertical and horizontal cascades. They feel cellular in their symmetric / asymmetric rhythm. Layers upon layers of paint come together to represent embodied desire.
Usually Emily’s paintings are overwhelmingly abstract, but on occasion coalesce into recognisable scenes, or glimpses of human forms. They do so in such a way as to reconsider distinctions between abstract and figurative scenes. Both entail an essential energy: the painter’s line, whether transcribing an abstract shape or gesture, or the shape of a limb or head, conveys electricity.
These paintings have ambition, and recall Cecily Brown’s protean sensuality, with the four edges of the painting containing the four dimensions transcribed onto the canvas. Brown has said, “I think that painting is a kind of alchemy. The paint is transformed into image, and paint and image transform themselves into a third and new thing.” From Emily Oades’ work you also receive this impression: paint is both material artifice, and substance imbued with life.