Spellman's art reflects her search to expose the truth.
This is a personal pilgrimage, her way of
grappling with issues such as mortality, infertility
and transformation.
She creates by building up layers of texture and color,
using her hands, sticks, and other tools to apply
acrylics, salts, and gels. Then, using water, sponges,
and knives, she removes everything that
obscures the essential elements.
She repeats this process, continuing to layer, continuing
to erode the surface until the painting's
true meaning and composition is unearthed.
Here are a few quotes from Gallery & Studio's Byron Coleman:
“Calls to mind not only Turner but that odd American visionary Albert Pinkham Ryder.”
“An abstract painter in the biomorphic tradition of Gorky and William Baziotes. “
“A powerful, neo-primitive presence akin to the best works of Rufino Tamayo.”
“That Spellman’s paintings are filled with allusions to the natural world lends them to a quality refreshingly unlike the “airlessness” …of much postmodern abstraction. The connection with nature is a vital one for Spellman, whose forms actually seem to bloom on the canvas like flowers in a garden…Often her compositions are quite baroque as a result of the flowing contours her natural shapes take. And the garden-like effect is furthered by her intrepidness as a colorist, which complements the sensuality of her shapes with a kindred chromatic sensuousness.”
This is a personal pilgrimage, her way of
grappling with issues such as mortality, infertility
and transformation.
She creates by building up layers of texture and color,
using her hands, sticks, and other tools to apply
acrylics, salts, and gels. Then, using water, sponges,
and knives, she removes everything that
obscures the essential elements.
She repeats this process, continuing to layer, continuing
to erode the surface until the painting's
true meaning and composition is unearthed.
Here are a few quotes from Gallery & Studio's Byron Coleman:
“Calls to mind not only Turner but that odd American visionary Albert Pinkham Ryder.”
“An abstract painter in the biomorphic tradition of Gorky and William Baziotes. “
“A powerful, neo-primitive presence akin to the best works of Rufino Tamayo.”
“That Spellman’s paintings are filled with allusions to the natural world lends them to a quality refreshingly unlike the “airlessness” …of much postmodern abstraction. The connection with nature is a vital one for Spellman, whose forms actually seem to bloom on the canvas like flowers in a garden…Often her compositions are quite baroque as a result of the flowing contours her natural shapes take. And the garden-like effect is furthered by her intrepidness as a colorist, which complements the sensuality of her shapes with a kindred chromatic sensuousness.”
