Place of Reflection in the Space of Atara Grenadir
by D. F. Colman, art writer, for the New Art Center, 2005
Transparency, permeability and structured etherialization are the hallmarks of London Grenadir's new works which exemplify the imagination taking flight. Here, the eye finds a type of plenitude in the scattered, an organized distribution of light and paint that is yet still, somehow enclosed, held in check, totalized and grounded by the systematized matrix horizontals found in each painting, each of which is buoyed by a saturated sense of indeterminacy as counterpoints to the center.
The artist deftly plays with oppositions here: on the one hand applying the common identification of lightness with transparency and immateriality, on the other hand finding a way to root the ideal into the earth throught the gutteral expression of her paint handling, through the energetics of the mortal body's hand.... The result offers a distanced, conceptual reading to the work....
In effect, the artist is deeply immersed in delineating for us, the viewers, what she perceives as an elemental condition of life, which finds its equilibrium through an interior force of counter-harmonies in space that has become a place for private reflection.
The artist deftly plays with oppositions here: on the one hand applying the common identification of lightness with transparency and immateriality, on the other hand finding a way to root the ideal into the earth throught the gutteral expression of her paint handling, through the energetics of the mortal body's hand.... The result offers a distanced, conceptual reading to the work....
In effect, the artist is deeply immersed in delineating for us, the viewers, what she perceives as an elemental condition of life, which finds its equilibrium through an interior force of counter-harmonies in space that has become a place for private reflection.
