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Abstract expressionism painting meets geometric formality of technical line drawing.

The base line drawing is a series of formal, repetitive organic curves. The technical formality is altered and contrasted by the freeform, spontaneous ink blot test pattern in a rainbow spectrum of colors that overlays the base line drawing.

My ink blots combine two opposing styles–exposing a split persona, an emotionally charge somewhat aleatory splash over a highly planned ink line drawings. The ink blot subverting the patience and practice of the underlying drawing. 

This drawing has a fold running down the center as that is how the mirror image ink painting is created.

"Spectral Dispersion", 33x22 inches, acrylic, pigment ink, india ink and pencil on Strathmore 500 cotton rag bristol board.
Abstract expressionism painting meets geometric formality of technical line drawing.

The base line drawing is a series of formal, repetitive organic curves. The technical formality is altered and contrasted by the freeform, spontaneous ink blot test pattern in a rainbow spectrum of colors that overlays the base line drawing.

My ink blots combine two opposing styles–exposing a split persona, an emotionally charge somewhat aleatory splash over a highly planned ink line drawings. The ink blot subverting the patience and practice of the underlying drawing. 

This drawing has a fold running down the center as that is how the mirror image ink painting is created.

"Spectral Dispersion", 33x22 inches, acrylic, pigment ink, india ink and pencil on Strathmore 500 cotton rag bristol board.
Abstract expressionism painting meets geometric formality of technical line drawing.

The base line drawing is a series of formal, repetitive organic curves. The technical formality is altered and contrasted by the freeform, spontaneous ink blot test pattern in a rainbow spectrum of colors that overlays the base line drawing.

My ink blots combine two opposing styles–exposing a split persona, an emotionally charge somewhat aleatory splash over a highly planned ink line drawings. The ink blot subverting the patience and practice of the underlying drawing. 

This drawing has a fold running down the center as that is how the mirror image ink painting is created.

"Spectral Dispersion", 33x22 inches, acrylic, pigment ink, india ink and pencil on Strathmore 500 cotton rag bristol board.
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Spectral Dispersion Painting

Mary Wagner

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Abstract expressionism painting meets geometric formality of technical line drawing. The base line drawing is a series of formal, repetitive organic curves. The technical formality is altered and contrasted by the freeform, spontaneous ink blot test pattern in a rainbow spectrum of colors that overlays the base line drawing. My ink blots combine two opposing styles–exposing a split persona, an emotionally charge somewhat aleatory splash over a highly planned ink line drawings. The ink blot subverting the patience and practice of the underlying drawing. This drawing has a fold running down the center as that is how the mirror image ink painting is created. "Spectral Dispersion", 33x22 inches, acrylic, pigment ink, india ink and pencil on Strathmore 500 cotton rag bristol board.

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Size:23 W x 29 H x 0.1 D in

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Going round-and-round is the central principle and action of Mary Wagner’s drawing practice. At the core, these drawings are simple, curvilinear paths arching about some absent center like an interstellar object flirting about a gravity well. The rigorous lines warm and complicate through repetition. Patterns pile on top of each other. The slim edge takes on form and depth, like cotton candy wisps or subatomic particles, cohering into something a bit more solid. Value and texture suggest dimension and movement. These things coax and combine into a sort of non-subject; or a subjective subject matter, inviting the viewer to project themselves. They are exercises in minimal purity, or expressions of chaos and order. They are complicated networks or psychedelic dreamscapes. Wagner was born and raised in rural Wisconsin. She lives and draws in Chicago. Her artwork is in private collections around the world.

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