Buddha - Leviathan of Buddhas, 2003
Acrylic on linen
40” x 48”
Silver Mandalas .01, 2005
Acrylic on linen
48” x 48”
Silver Mandalas .011, 2005
Acrylic on linen
48” x 48”
Laura Dufort has completed new paintings that are the embodiment of a quiet rigor. Her new silvery white paintings seem the result of a purification; movement and palette distilled into quiet clarity and gestural simplicity. In these new radiant paintings made up of circles floating over a shiny ground, Dufort places more emphasis on emptiness and the experience of space.
The nearly translucent circles are still, suggesting suspended motion. The floating sensation of the ‘O’ shapes gently balances the movement in the repeating swirls of paint. Each regulated mark of the artist’s brush is a meditative gesture. Each represents a moment in space and can be seen as both personal and cosmological.
"There’s something about repetition that serves meditation. The body, hand and eye learn to execute the motion while attention witnesses the action…" - Laura Dufort
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