Leah Rosenberg

double bind 2007-08
acrylic paint
9” x 9” x 7”

double bind (detail) 2007-08
acrylic paint
9” x 9” x 7”

"My paintings are time and process-based works that combine elements of layering, systems of accrual, and color. I allow and encourage the build-up of paint to act in a three dimensional manner, at times to the point of doing away with the support altogether. These layers of paint function as a way to mark the passage of time, but also reveal the paints’ inherent materiality as it begins to take on its own shape.  I select the colors based on personal systems, sometimes based on the text from a book that I am reading or lyrics of a song, other times reflecting a telephone call home to Saskatchewan, or the colors of the clothing worn by people who visit my studio throughout that day. Each work is the result of a ritualized routine that raises a question, which in turn leads to the next work. 

These paintings, like all painting, contain the time of their making. Each piece is a concentration of the many “paintings.” I am not refering here to the paintings in terms of finished art works, but rather “paintings” as a gerund, a series of consecutively painted actions. A painting, on a painting, on a painting — they end up concealing as much as they reveal" (Rosenberg, R.)

 Rosenberg, L. (n.d.) [online] Available at: <http://www.leahrosenberg.org/works.html> [Accessed 7 Febuary 2012]