ISABEL CUENCA: "TWO PAINTINGS"
Isabel Cuenca "Two Paintings" May 2019 "Untitled" Acrylic on canvas 48x48 in 2018 "Untitled" Acrylic on canvas 40x34 in 2016 INTERVIEW Eileen Tabios (ET): I love your paintings of these edged abstractions. It’s hard for me to articulate why but I think it’s because they seem transparent and yet are not. For instance, they offer an architectural sense and yet the physics of the images might not allow them to stand up were they actually built 3-dimensionally, which is to say, they can hold together viably only if components are in parallel universes — an impression that pleases me. Am I being too flakey? Anyway, I’d like to know more about the background of how you developed this series — you go back to at least 2011 doing such works (based on your website). How/when did you begin doing these works and since you seem to have spent years at it, what have you learned/discovered during this time? Isa