Past Exhibition
Nov 10, 2022 - Feb 3, 2023
AT THE HISTORIC HERCULES BUILDING ATRIUM
1313 North Market Street, Wilmington, DE
Monique Rollins
EXQUISITE DELINEATIONS
“Each painting is an uncompromising
visual document of my journeys and experiences.”
The tumult of the past several years is palpable in the thin lines of conte crayon, broad fields of rich charcoal, and brushstrokes of oil paint laid down on stretched canvas. Each one of Monique Rollins’ gestures is saturated with energy, and each composition teeming with emotion—a devastating pandemic, the war in Ukraine, the joy of new life. Throughout her career, Rollins has united the complex and dual nature of existence and consciousness into a singular composition. The works are unified by a twisting line that follows the peaks and valleys of life like a thread spun by the Fates.
Rollins continues to push her dual commitment to line and color, and her recent drawings and paintings from 2022 show no exception. Over the years, Rollins has created a unique visual vocabulary I refer to as biogeometric abstraction. The pairing of biomorphic and abstracted geometric forms creates allusions to remembered landscapes or endless spaces. Like abstract expressionist painters of the 1940s and 1950s, Rollins simultaneously aligns and divorces drawing and color, and the results are dynamic. The urgency and forcefulness with which one form intersects another is balanced by a calm field of color, a space into which one can disappear. These are works of exuberance but not frivolity. Exquisite Delineations is a bold grouping of Rollins’ drawings and paintings that showcase the graphic and affecting impact one can achieve when these two essential elements of art are expertly combined.
Margaret Winslow, Curator
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