Julia Ritson's exhibition 'New Works', continues her exploration of the grid, a practice that began in 1995.
Ritson has long been interested in diptychs and their relationship to a binary way of seeing and perceiving — left and right, up and down, black and white, this and the other. For more than thirty years, she has returned to this theme primarily in painted forms in multiple exhibitions using scale, form, surface, and colour.
This is her eighth exhibition of new works at Scott Livesey Galleries. Many of the works draw from the art of mosaics and the concept of opus vermiculatum (worm-like work) — the practice of outlining forms to create depth within a picture plane. Greek and Roman mosaics from antiquity are starting points, where even a tiny fragment of background landscape can lead to a visual escape, opening each work into a richer field of perception.
