Slash

Gina Werfel’s Slash brilliantly uses negative space to accentuate and demarcate its passages of rich yet delicate colors. Oil paint's beige and light-yellow washes are balanced by deep purples, blues, and reds. The intrusions of activated white that cut through the painting's more colorful brushstrokes prevent any one color from consuming another. The gestural mark-making, deep blue dots, and diffused grey areas communicate a sense of carefully controlled chaos. The gestural spontaneity of the forms draws the viewers' attention with the radical freedom of their application. However, Slash retains a visual equilibrium by virtue of Werfel’s mastery of color and form. Every hue and every painterly expression are perfectly and harmoniously wrought.