Incollect Magazine Issue 7

94 www.incollect.com Lita Albuquerque Peter Blake Gallery Abstraction comes in many types and forms and one of the most original is found in the work of Lita Albuquerque. Her Trajectory through the Sun Exhalation #2, 2000, on paper, or Untitled 2002 presents us with a mystical spin on geometric abstraction which results in a simple, minimal composition of uncanny luminosity and spirituality. No surprise given she is a land artist, who does video, photography, and performance art as well as painting as part of her “studio” practice. “Albuquerque’s auric field paintings investigate space, color and materiality,” says Peter Blake, who has represented the artist for some years now. Her recent paintings are executed on top of layers of lush black and white pigment backgrounds, with the paintings’ top layers of colorful shapes (often done in gold leaf) seeming to vibrate. Light is her subject matter, her theme, her muse, being absorbed and reflected in her paintings. Lita Albuquerque (b. 1946) Trajectory through the Sun Exhalation #2, 2000 Mixed media on paper 22 x 30 inches Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, California Available through Incollect.com