Back in the studio, she would try to translate her notes into the language of abstraction, her improvisations usually taking her far afield from her starting points. In fact her paintings needed to be looked at over time to get a full sense of their complex, ravishing beauty. Many of them could involve up to 50 layers and take as long as three months to complete. “Profile (Yellow Yuskavage),” completed in 2015, was based on the palette of a work by the New York painter Lisa Yuskavage. “Tempest (Concave),” completed in 2019, takes its title from Shakespeare and has some of the whiplash energy of Bernini’s “The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa.”

Source: New York Times December 28, 2020 15:45 UTC