Gloria Tanchelev

Studio #14

In this series of paintings, I am working within and against the traditions of geometric abstraction to destabilize the viewers’ sense of space and self.

Images of shapes bending space arise in my meditation practice. The shapes are off-axial and asymmetric. The paintings are architectural, challenging the picture plane, the edge, the square to address the viewer and the room.

These paintings were begun in response to the extremity of our moment. They are painted in oils for oils’ physicality and authority. They are painted in white and black and white and red for these hues’ history, their particular materiality and their power.

I have a 46 year painting practice, one in which scale and space, materiality and illusion have been consistent concerns.

   “When the Mode of the Music changes, the walls of the City shake.”

     Plato, 5th century Athens