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Debra Drexler
"Liquid Sun" Large Scale Abstract Painting (pink, orange, yellow, blue, violet)

2019

$16,000
£11,879.15
€13,842.48
CA$22,213.17
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CHF 12,930.43
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84"x60" oil and acrylic on canvas, signed on reverse by the artist. This is a contemporary abstract painting by the New York/ Hawaiian artist, Debra Drexler. Tangerine and pale orange with red and golden yellow, intermingle with pink and violet pools of color this vibrant composition. Layers of color and paint build to the surface of the painting, with some areas applied with a impasto technique, others smooth and glossy to give an active painting surface. Drexler imparts a feeling of early morning dawn or late sunset, in her use of color, and pallet of light nearly pastel hues. Debra Drexler is an American painter, installation artist, curator and professor. Her work is informed both by participating in the contemporary resurgence of abstraction coming out of New York, and by living in the Post Colonial Pacific since 1992. She has participated in over thirty solo and over 100 group exhibitions in national and international venues including Front Room Gallery, Exit Art, The Drawing Center, White Box-The Annex, Art Finance Partners, Van Der Plas Gallery, Sideshow Gallery, and Denise Bibro Gallery in New York, as well The Honolulu Museum of Art and Maui Arts and Cultural Center. Debra Drexler is a Professor at the University of Hawaii, where she is Chair of the Drawing and Painting Area. She maintains studios in Brooklyn, NY and on the island of Oahu in Hawai’i. Debra Drexler's most recent work is highly experimental large-scale abstract painting. In a recent review of a two-person exhibition (Whitehot Magazine,2017) Drexler's work as clearly referencing the long tradition of American abstraction and the established legacy of the New York School. The reviewer, Jonathan Goodman, described the work as a “new non-objectivity” that comes out of the current moment. He states that Drexler's painting “quite accurately describes the spirit of abstract art today, in which painting is struggling to break free of the constraints of time." Debra Drexler frequently uses hot pink, a color with heavily gendered associations. Her hot pink brushstrokes reference the “heroic” marks associated with action painting, and feminize them. The luminosity and high key saturation in Drexler's work are created through multiple layers of glazing of pigment mixed with polymer and alkyd media. Some of her color choices reference the post-digital experience with its highly saturated synthetic color. The luminosity and saturation also mirror the unique quality of light and the over-the-top, tropical color interactions in Hawai’i.
  • Creator:
    Debra Drexler (American)
  • Creation Year:
    2019
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 84 in (213.36 cm)Width: 60 in (152.4 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    New York, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU6928382932

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