push pull
Water-based and traditional oils, house paint,
raw pigments, wax medium, Liquitex medium.
“Push Pull,” a nine-panel painting, is a repository of Kessinger’s benevolent wizardry — a play of hue, shape, texture, and tricks designed to delight and perturb the eye. She’s poked hundreds of holes in lines in her canvases, stained them red, and gotten the apertures to mess with the viewer’s perception of color and shape. On top of that, she’s varied the thickness of the canvases, creating subtle destabilization and drawing the audience closer. It can be appreciated for the intrigue it generates, but it also be understood as a theoretical piece about penetration, and how deep into a work of art it’s possible to get." review by tris mccall, jersey city times
Donna Kessinger
50” x 50” grid