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ANNA OLIVER: "CLOSE ATTENTION"
OCTOBER 1-24, 2021
Ever since she moved to the Berkshires four years ago, Anna Oliver has been obsessed with painting the meadows and roadside verges that line the roads of her new neighborhood, trying to render them in their tangled complexity. When Oliver paints, she tries to observe, as closely as possible, small splashes of light, changes in color, in shape, dark against light, the blue shadow of a flower carving itself into the bright green of a leaf. She looks hard, trying to see where light slashes against dark, where a form emerges in the background of a chaotic foreground. She’s drawn to bright color, to subtle shifts from one color to another, and to changes in light. It is really pattern that she is capturing; not the pattern of reality so much as the pattern of form and light.
OCTOBER 1-24, 2021
Ever since she moved to the Berkshires four years ago, Anna Oliver has been obsessed with painting the meadows and roadside verges that line the roads of her new neighborhood, trying to render them in their tangled complexity. When Oliver paints, she tries to observe, as closely as possible, small splashes of light, changes in color, in shape, dark against light, the blue shadow of a flower carving itself into the bright green of a leaf. She looks hard, trying to see where light slashes against dark, where a form emerges in the background of a chaotic foreground. She’s drawn to bright color, to subtle shifts from one color to another, and to changes in light. It is really pattern that she is capturing; not the pattern of reality so much as the pattern of form and light.