
Eva Lundsager
Eva Lundsager’s luminous paintings, small oils on wood surfaces, possess a transcendental, almost sublime, quality. The forms in paintings like Really Sips, Leading to the Mass, For a Juicy While, and Playing Field (all works 1992) suggest subjective dreamscapes. Characterized by a quality of light that seems to emanate from its surface and tactile paint, Really Sips employs thin layers of pigment to stir up contradictory feelings of freedom and confinement. Through this white elliptical form, with its multiple rings, and surrounding black and white and colored ground, Lundsager foregrounds the