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Hilary Herrmann and Inga Dalrymple’s paintings reveal a shared attentiveness to life’s subtleties. Both artists are alive to the otherwise incidental: a story overhead, leaves and their shadows against a bright sunlit wall; those things seemingly peripheral or easily overlooked. Gleaning from memories, imaginings, and sense impressions to arrive at an image, they differently distil their associative encounters with the world. In Hilary’s paintings, the sedimentary accumulations of experience are refigured in enigmatic, dreamlike narratives; in Inga’s, immediate and remembered scenes coincide in chromatic compositions that bend towards abstraction. Where Inga’s appear transparent and luminous, their pigment more often thinly applied in dry brushstrokes or thin washes, Hilary’s are characterised by an accumulative opacity and apparent grit, their surfaces worked with rags and palette knife. Yet however dissimilar in sensibility, both artists transcribe something of the provisional nature of being. Lines drift, forms linger; nothing is held too tightly, everything is subject to shift.
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Forms of Being: Hilary Herrmann and Inga Dalrymple
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