Isabel Gomez

Isabel Gomez

“A painting is not a painting of an experience, it is the experience” -Mark Rothko- Since the 1970s I have staked out my artistic terrain in the frontier between abstraction and figuration. As a painter, I have always been interested in the expressive portrayal of the human situation and emotion. However, abstraction seemed to express more ambiguity and indistinctness, a central concept to my paintings. By abandoning the figurative approach in favor of abstraction seems to offer a degree of detachment, allowing me to produce paintings that can exist beyond the limitations of my own experience or personality, starting from the desire to create an image that is somehow natural and familiar that can exist in its own right. Abstraction is a medium open to the viewer, allowing personal expression and interpretation. Its indefinite nature leaves space for the viewer to introduce his own understanding and perspective of the painting.

“A painting is not a painting of an experience, it is the experience”
-Mark Rothko-

Since the 1970s I have staked out my artistic terrain in the frontier between abstraction and figuration. As a painter, I have always been interested in the expressive portrayal of the human situation and emotion. However, abstraction seemed to express more ambiguity and indistinctness, a central concept to my paintings. By abandoning the figurative approach in favor of abstraction seems to offer a degree of detachment, allowing me to produce paintings that can exist beyond the limitations of my own experience or personality, starting from the desire to create an image that is somehow natural and familiar that can exist in its own right.
Abstraction is a medium open to the viewer, allowing personal expression and interpretation. Its indefinite nature leaves space for the viewer to introduce his own understanding and perspective of the painting.