Untitled, 2020
watercolour, acrylic and collage on paper
17.9 × 12 cm (7" × 4 ¾")
35.9 × 27.4 cm (14" 1/8 × 10" 3/4) (framed)

"Abts is best known for abstract paintings but she also produces large and small format drawings. The small drawings are made very quickly and spontaneously without preconception, with any available material, and collage elements may come into play. Graphite and color pencil, fine liner, felt-tip and ballpoint pen, and watercolor are her primary materials for drawing. Sometimes, she introduces collage elements. Here, there is some affinity for an aspect of illusionism that we see in her paintings, where shading and an articulation of forms give the appearance of sculptural relief, cut-outs, shadows cast, overlays, and raised planes within pictorial space. Even so, none of the works on paper that incorporate collaged elements corresponds to any particular painting."

Excerpt from "To Draw ... A Drawing ... Drawn ..." by Bob Nickas published in Mainly Drawings © Aspen Art Museum, 2015.

In 2018, while in residence at Thread artists' residency and cultural center in Sinthian, Senegal, Abts started to work on watercolours that cover the whole surface of the paper.

Generously donated by Tomma Abts

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