Paintings by Martha Horvay |
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| "The challenge of suggesting the most complex forms and
stories with the simplest possible means continues to obsess me."
Attracted to the precision of geometric forms, Horvay's choice of a simple perspective allows pattern to drain volume from a form or pump volume into a flat shape. She takes pleasure in creating ambiguity, then attempting to control it. |
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Martha Horvay
represents objects in her acrylic paint paintings that simultaneously suggest machines,
architecture and consumer goods. The objects appear as the tools of a previous generation
appear today, frequently abandoned, with broken parts and worn surfaces. Her objective is
to evoke the magnitude of time through which nature reclaims the evidence of past
civilizations. Human beings are conspicuously absent. Instead, she includes the buildings
they inhabited and the implements they used.