text upstairs

In the 1960s and 1970s, her deep interest in perception leads her to explore in her work the effect of light on objects, the illusion of roundness on plane surfaces, or the play of depths, distances, and horizon lines of a painting. In 1985, her stay in Hawaii as a visiting artist at the University marks a turning point in her practice. Her encounter with intense light, exuberant nature, vivid colors, and the motion of the island totally transforms her painting style: breaking-free from the traditional flat plane she starts working in space, cutting out the fabric to create shaped canvases and three-dimensional sculptural paintings, all in very intense colors.