Kristina kuester-witt: Face to face
September 20 - November 2, 2014
Opening reception: friday, September 19, 6-8pm
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The exhibition “Face to Face” features new mixed
media work by German born painter and printmaker Kristina Küster-Witt. This playful,
figurative series about the human condition depicts hopes, dreams, fears
or inner conflicts. She uses a transfer technique called paper lithography to
transform elements of her oil-paintings, mostly faces, into prints. Then she
paints or draws around them creating a new tension due to the contrast of
delicately painted patterns on “raw”, unprimed wood-panels or brown printmaking
paper. This contrast also reflects the fragility or violence of emotions and
ultimate concerns of our existence like loneliness, freedom or mortality come
to mind. She likes for her imagery to be simple and subtle but at the same time
addresses a world of complexity and obscurity.
