As artists, we are pretty obsessed with our materials and mediums.  Photographers baby their cameras and lenses, sculptors take precious care of their tools.  And painters, well, we love paint– the way it smells, the way it looks, the way it behaves.  Seattle artist Margie Livingston, whom we last heard from in October 2012 during her run as Featured Artist, has been continuing her own wild love affair with the properties of paint.

 

Stretching, pulling, carving, slicing, dicing, Livingston pushes paint to its ever expanding limits.  This latest group of work seems to have an elegant electricity about it, in the juxtapositions of graphic black & white against super charged neon purples and pinks.  Then she spins that on its head with her gloriously shroud-like draped paint sculptures.

Poured, Sliced, and Draped, a show of Margie Livingston’s latest work, opens at Greg Kucera Gallery in Seattle today, with the opening reception taking place during First Thursday on June 5th.  If you’re in Seattle, don’t miss her Artist Talk this Saturday, at 11:30am, see the Greg Kucera site for details!  Aaaah, some days I really miss Seattle.

And of course, be sure to check out Margie Livingston’s website for more of her work.

Top, second & fifth image via the artist’s website.  Other images via the Greg Kucera website.