TM (Holy Family), 2007
Acrylic on maple panel
7” x 7”
RR - Comtesse d’Haussonville, 2006/07
Acrylic on maple panel
6” x 6”
AZ, 2007
Acrylic on maple panel
10” x 10”
TM II, 2006
Acrylic on maple panel
10” x 10”
Magdalen, 2007
chalk ground and egg tempera on panel
4” x 4”
CF, 2005
Acrylic on maple panel
8” x 8”
DW (Bather), 2005
Acrylic on maple panel
6” x 8”
E (Madame Devaucay #3), 2005
Acrylic on maple panel
10” x 10”
L, 2004
acrylic on canvas
72” x 54”
LGR (Virgin & Child), 2005
Acrylic on maple panel
6” x 6”
Madonna of the Pinks and Other Ladies, 2005
Acrylic on maple panel
14” x 18”
N, 2004
Acrylic on canvas
41” x 35”
P (Comtesse Daru), 2005
Acrylic on maple panel
7 1/8” x 7 1/8”
Pink is M1 (Madame Devauçay), 2005
Acrylic on canvas
18” x 24”
Pink is W, 2005
Acrylic on canvas
24-1/2” x 30”
Sian Oblak’s paintings are the elegant result of self-imposed restraints. With self-assurance, she navigates the restricted territory in which she defines her practice: “a specific palette of colors and a limited vocabulary of marks.” Within this discipline Sian Oblak creates compositions in soft, nearly pastel hues that are essentially abstract while hinting at representation through passages of rendered drapery. Against a smooth almost white ground, she plays with space and movement juxtaposing static painterly color with flowing textile shapes. Studying drapery in classical painting the artist reinterprets information found within the rich variety of images from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance.
Sian Oblak graduated from CCA's masters program after completing her BFA at St. Martin’s in London. She lives and maintains her studio in the Bay Area.
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