Vita Brejner
In Pursuit of Abstraction
May 4 - May 24, 2007
Reception:
Thursday May 10, 2007 6-8 PM
Press Release
Vita Brejner’s paintings break all the rules. With its raw yet detailed use of organic shapes, Brejner’s work picks up the expressionist tradition championed by DeKooning. Brejner’s twist is a jazzy, personal landscape which does not shy away from the suggestions of psychological trauma. Brejner relies on unpredictability, and her unique muse dances with the energy of improvisation. “The brush and paint lead the way,” she insists, and the result is an abstract primitivism, complete with totemic faces and half-seen tableaus emerging from backgrounds that vary between sinister and euphoric. Brejner says her paintings each hide a story, and her personal archaeology of the process uses the tools of emotional extremes and a liberty with color scheme. “I have to find that particular story,” Brejner says. Thick outlines and boundary-free shapes melt and collide, and despite, or perhaps because of, her embrace of a free-associative work process, the stories Brejner discovers in her paintings are viscerally defiant of category. She becomes not only the creator, but the first viewer of her art, offering the first interpretation. Vita Brejner’s wild inspiration is also fueled by the beauty and visual drama of Copenhagen, Denmark, where she lives and works.
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