Marketa Sivek

The color field in Sivek's paintings tends toward the atmospheric — blues and grays and deep purples that read as sky-states rather than as sky itself. The horizon, when it appears, sits low, giving the upper register of the canvas over to color and light in their purest form. This is painting that takes the landscape as a point of departure and arrives somewhere more abstract, more interior.

Her digital paintings at JG extend this practice into a medium that allows greater precision in the gradient passages — the subtle shifts from one tone to another that define the work's atmosphere. The digital works are not illustrations; they carry the same formal ambition as the acrylic canvases, and the surface, when printed, holds a similar presence.