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I recently completed a very brightly colored series of geometric paintings that I started last year.
That Rosie Lee Tompkins retrospective at the BAMPFA left a huge impression on me….STILL thinking about all those bright colors and her unexpected arrangement of the quilt blocks.
That got me playing around with my paintings.
And that reminded me of those wooden pattern blocks my kids played with.
Still thinking about Rosie Lee Tompkins and the way she put together quilt blocks from ostensibly different projects. The way she stuck them together kind of willy nilly….but so brilliantly. “Deliriously akimbo” is how Roberta Smith described it in her NYT article. Perfectly imperfect. They make me want to dance, which is saying a lot after the year we had.
Last week I visited the breath-taking Rosie Lee Tompkins retrospective at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) with art pals Rachel Davis and Amy Torgeson. I can’t stop thinking about her intuitive sense of color and design.
Show runs through July 18, 2021
www.bampfa.org