This painting recreates the deep reds and lapis lazuli blues of early Italian renaissance Mother and Child genre paintings. The artist's new body of work employs her signature layering of matte acrylics to explore darker tones prominent throughout Western art history.
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About the artwork:

This painting recreates the deep reds and lapis lazuli blues of early Italian renaissance Mother and Child genre paintings. The artist's new body of work employs her signature mark making and layering of matte acrylics to explore darker color tones prominent throughout Western art history. For Korneffel, the process of layering the picture plane works as a filter for her experience as she arrives at the precise forms and colors for each work.

About the artist:

Jule Korneffel’s abstract style of inscriptive mark making follows a minimalist sensibility. Yet by allowing the underpainting to remain visible, the paintings reveal a process of re-duction and layering that act as a filtering of experiences. Through what she refers to as "floating through its creation", Korneffel's practice involves viewing the picture plane as a lived experience in which she is able to arrive at precise forms and colors. Her primary focus is the nature and application of color for which she is constantly developing her own technique. The multiple layering and matte surfaces derive from her European Academia background, particularly inspired by Italian Renaissance painters, while the intuitive and open-layered approach relates to a more American painting tradition drawn from internal dialogue.

Some recent press and writings are John Yau’s review "Color Is the Carrier of Emotion" in Hyperallergic (2019), followed by his review “The Pleasure of Slow Looking” in Hyperallergic (2022); “The Ongoing Present Moment of Making: Jule Korneffel" Interviewed by Hannah Bruckmüller in BOMB Magazine (2021), Terry R. Myers’ essay on occasion of her show at Claas Reiss (2020/2021), “Jule Korneffel: Here comes the night” by Andrew L. Shea as Artseen in the Brooklyn Rail (2022), Platform Art Spotlight: “In the Studio: Jule Korneffel. The artist on the alchemy of color and calling two places home” (2022.)

Specs:

13 inches
12 inches
2 inches
12 inches
Jule Korneffel:
Maria + Kind, 2021
Acrylic on canvas
12.0 × 13.0 inches /