Critiqued Assignment #3: Not Flat / "Exposure"

Abstract

This is a digital photograph of Erin Burman's mixed media artwork. It was submitted as the third critiqued assignment, "Not Flat," on April 4, 2017, in Erin Harmon's Intermediate/Advanced Painting class. The student's artist statement for this work reads: "The ambiguously lumpen forms are stone-like in surface treatment yet organic in shape. Isolated beneath the spotlight bearing defensive spikes, their presence is at once stately and vulnerable: they are attractively camouflaged in cerulean and turquoise, but their camouflage is ill-adapted and gaudy amid the sterile white of the studio. Nervous and out of place, the forms ooze a sumptuous yet disgusting greenish slime."