( 2005 – present )
I started my Observations Series in 2005 and I still work on a piece or two occasionally. They are acrylic and oil on either canvas or wood panel, mostly large format.
“Silvia Poloto’s mixed-media Observations paintings are brilliantly colored but modulated fields of paint inhabited...
by an assortment of visual events: sweeping brushstrokes in black and white, meandering lines, grids of dots, poured squiggles, and scrubbed-in blobs. They are reminiscent of various Abstract Expressionist painters —Miro, Baziotes, Rothko, Motherwell, and Tapies— but this is a synthesis that creates its own world. A variety of marks is presented close up to the picture plane in front of an aqueous, shadowy mass of color, as if floating on waves or emerged from chaos, but drifting slightly; a sense of temporality and change emerges from the sometimes odd and ambiguous shapes, which seem to breathe.” ( DeWitt Cheng, art critic an writer )
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