Eva Lake: the Richter Scale - exhibition at Augen Gallery in December 2007

Full color catalogue available at Augen Gallery:

All works oil on canvas, 2006 - 2007, 12 inch square:

Statement

For years I have been interested in the Richter Scale, used as a measurement of activity and life force. The zigzag shape is attractive to me and the most recent quake came right at the dawn of my last exhibition.

It has to do with where we are on the planet, but also where we are in time: the infinite and the near, the specific place of the west. I grew up in this part of the world. I took it with me everywhere that I went. It never left me - I always had the place, the land, the sky, the water. And the paint.

My goal in painting is to create an experience you feel as opposed to a composition you read. I treasure an infinite space. With this new body of work, I left behind the grid and embraced an ongoing line, not dissimilar to Brancusi's Endless column.

The December 2007 show at Augen had 44 painting. They function on their own, but also work as pairs, triptychs and totems.

For images of my previous exhibition of 2006, Take Off, click here.

For images of my 2005 Exhibition, Vive Chrome, click here.

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