Cut-Up Paper 2005 Guillaume Moschini The tension of overlapping foreground

The tension of overlapping foreground shapes and the contrary background treatment is accentuated by the high-key yellow color that pushes the composition forward toward the viewer

but can be viewed as a metaphoric crossroads

Neill has exhibited her paintings and drawings widely in many solo and group exhibitions at museums and galleries nationally

While working on this project the artist is reminded of Josef Albers' statement: "There is a profound harmony in the immeasurable spectrum of color

forms and textures hauntingly allude to the world of nature and recognizable things

Cut-Up Paper 2005 Guillaume Moschini The tension of overlapping foregroundPedersen 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.