Cut-Up Canvas I.6 Stephen Maine is in dialogue with diluted

is in dialogue with diluted acrylic paint and performative expressions of unchoreographed

shadow and form

Her textured and painterly surfaces blend areas of apparent randomness where the paint has been splashed or dripped with areas of precision

This work from the Tease series is a simple composition that is subtle and playful

Cut-Up Canvas I.6 Stephen Maine is in dialogue with dilutedPedersen works with acrylic paint. When painting a composition, she tends toward a limited color palette, often reducing the composition to minimal, hard edged shapes on solid colored fields. The harmonies and tensions in the work arise from different relationships: those between the colors, the patterns, and the geometric and organic shapes.