Kazimira Rachfal, this night at last, 2010, 8 x 6 inches, oil on canvas (courtesy Janet Kurnatowski Gallery)
Steven Alexander visits the exhibition Kazimira Rachfal: The Shiva Cycle at Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, New York, on view through April 22, 2012.
Alexander writes that Rachfal's works are "spare and deeply evocative paintings... Employing an iconic motif -- a rectangle with a slightly curved angular top, contained in varying ratios by a solid field and the edges of the canvas -- the artist explores the nuances of proportion, touch and color. The surfaces vary from impasto to thin veils of oil, arrived at through a long slow intuitive layering process that leaves traces of each previous action."
