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Article: Molly Briggs at Zg.(CHICAGO)
- Article from:
- Art in America
- Article date:
- September 1, 2007
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Landscape is Molly Briggs's point of departure for explorations of paint, color and composition. Her images of tree silhouettes in empty landscapes recall photography and film as they suggest memory and dream. Briggs starts with a wood panel, which she covers with linen or canvas. She glues paper vellum on top and paints it with silvery tempera to create a matte gray surface with a sparkle like a movie screen. Working in tempera, acrylic and Flashe, Briggs then paints the tree silhouettes in roughly overlapping layers of blue-silver, then pale blue and red. She renders each tree with great exactitude, giving it independent life. We see the red first in a finished painting ...
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