Kenise Barnes Fine Art is pleased to announce the new exhibition featuring painters Susan English, Julie Gross, and Audrey Stone. All three women have distinguished careers centered around their use of color and abstraction.

Susan English’s paintings are rich in their sophisticated vocabulary of color and surface. By expertly pouring layers of tinted polymer paints, English has arrived at a body of work whose minimalist appearance belies their complexities.

Through a series of planned pours and the manipulation of smooth aluminum panels, English both directs and anticipates how the paint will accumulate, disperse, resist, and form its own small abstractions. English makes her paintings through process, intention, experience, and chance. The thickness and viscosity of the paint dictates the subtleties in appearance and the intensity of each color. Her paintings’ surfaces range from matte to medium or high gloss, each variously absorbing or reflecting light.

English’s color choices represent an intersection of outside and inside. Often her painting’s palette comes from an experience of a place or moment in time. Inside the highly charged realm of color, the artist’s responses and choices are visual, emotional, and intuitive. She is interested in the phenomenon of a color at the limit of itself. How far can green be pushed before it becomes blue? How many infinite directions can you push a brown or a gray or a white? In this tertiary area, colors hum like a harmony contained in a single note.