Cut-Up Canvas II.6 Bernadette Jiyong Frank more intense than when seen

more intense than when seen separately

endowing her compositions with nuanced luminosity

The process of creating these pictures is slow and deliberate

That digital montage became the model for the first painting

The streetlight flickered up through trees in sync with a lake-scented breeze

Cut-Up Canvas II.6 Bernadette Jiyong Frank more intense than when seenPedersen works with acrylic paint. When painting a composition, she tends toward a limited color palette, often reducing the composition to minimal, hard edged shapes on solid colored fields. The harmonies and tensions in the work arise from different relationships: those between the colors, the patterns, and the geometric and organic shapes.