Untitled 1961

Charlotte Posenenske made this untitled painting with broad brushstrokes of blues and blacks which almost resemble collage. Imagine the act of painting it: she’s pushing paint around the surface, maybe with a big brush or even a rag, figuring it out as she goes along. I wonder if she set out to make something so blocky and architectural. There’s a real physicality to the medium – you can see the texture of the paint, how it’s been dragged across the surface, leaving these visible traces of movement and energy. It’s like a dance between control and chance. These intense blues against the raw canvas, create a push and pull. There are connections between the colour palette in this painting and the colours used for her modular sculptures. I can't help but feel that artists, across time, are always in dialogue with one another, influencing each other’s creative process. Ultimately, painting is an embodied expression that embraces ambiguity, allowing for multiple interpretations.