Black & White, Almost
In Black & White, almost Moriya creates a monochromatic world of movement and rhythm – in black and white – enabling the colorful element to integrate within it. These paintings resemble, in her view, one voice solo singing compared to the rich choire of hues in Transitional space #1 and Transitional space #2.
In Black & White, almost Moriya presents a series of abstract works in a striking summarization of color creating a monochromatic world of movement and rhythm – in black and white – enabling the colorful element to integrate within it. In these works the artist forgoes painting images that parallel visible reality leaving only the most inner essence of the work apparent. The artist maintains that the abstract works displayed almost monochromatically in Black & White, almost resemble one voice solo passages, compared to her very collorful paintings in Transitional space #2.
Moriya´s monochromatic paintings are constructed in free rhythmic lines imposed on the bare white canvas. The connections between adjoining sections balance the shapes with an equilibrium leading to a rhythm-weaving dialogue.
In her creative process Moriya enters the intermediate domain between imagination and reality, between awareness and unawareness. Although allusions to concrete images sometimes appear in her abstract paintings, the values at the heart of her study are the shapes and colors and their interrelationships.
Despite their intensiveness the paintings are endowed with much intimacy and express a wide range of human experiences. Moriya assumes the obligation to locate these emotions and express them in her artwork. As the accumulated experiences burst onto the canvas in Black & White, almost, everything appears to happen there concurrently and the separation between past, present and future becomes insignificant. The present, supposedly dominant now, surrenders at times to tremendous forces of the past, while the future appears in the space of the painting as an unknown world bearing hope.
Daniella Talmor, curator.
October 2014
Moriya´s monochromatic paintings are constructed in free rhythmic lines imposed on the bare white canvas. The connections between adjoining sections balance the shapes with an equilibrium leading to a rhythm-weaving dialogue.
In her creative process Moriya enters the intermediate domain between imagination and reality, between awareness and unawareness. Although allusions to concrete images sometimes appear in her abstract paintings, the values at the heart of her study are the shapes and colors and their interrelationships.
Despite their intensiveness the paintings are endowed with much intimacy and express a wide range of human experiences. Moriya assumes the obligation to locate these emotions and express them in her artwork. As the accumulated experiences burst onto the canvas in Black & White, almost, everything appears to happen there concurrently and the separation between past, present and future becomes insignificant. The present, supposedly dominant now, surrenders at times to tremendous forces of the past, while the future appears in the space of the painting as an unknown world bearing hope.
Daniella Talmor, curator.
October 2014
