New York-born painter Barbara Bilotta considers herself an Abstract Impressionist, a categorization that hints at the uniquely stylized and deconstructed acrylic and resin compositions that she extracts from natural images. Her canvases combine forms of bold color in fluidly layered shapes with thick areas of monochrome black or white. She uses resin to lend a lacquered shine and textural dimensionality to each piece, so that the light plays off the colors in surprising ways.
This mixing of acrylic and resin also accentuates the intensive layering involved in each piece, so that certain areas become embossed after multiple applications while others appear flatter. Bilotta’s work thereby gains an architectonic quality, evoking structured forms suddenly emancipated from their linear binding, allowed to move freely, organically. The viscous imagery of the highly reflective resin even confounds clear differentiations between brushstrokes so that each dynamic composition seems to have emerged from a loosely guided pouring process. Bilotta finds compelling and attractive forms through bold and glimmering fluidity.