Rita Deanin Abbey
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Explorations

5 on display, 6 in series

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Abbey utilizes the language of color, line, pattern, texture, and form for inquiry into limitless compositional elements. She cultivated observational and imaginative skills to perceive the interrelationship of structure, space, and process. The need for completeness, for a unified world and our place in it, is a creative force for Abbey.

I strive to discover these forces through deeply felt distinctive images rather than consistency of style. I submit to the rhythm and order of the power of change and motion in my surroundings and in myself. My love of color, texture, and form, my curiosities, intuition, observations, and need for discovery keeps me from repeating what no longer seems challenging.

–Rita Deanin Abbey

Series Highlights

Ancestral Garden, a large-scale acrylic painting by Rita Deanin Abbey. A bright blue background with kelp-like lines fill the painting. The lines are outlined in pink. In the center of the piece is a purple curved shape with small, purple ovals inside of it. Muted yellow lines wrap around the ovals. The shape is outlined in an electric yellow. Next to the yellow-outlined shape is a dark magenta curved shape that forms into the grooves of the yellow one. The inside of this shape is coral-like and brighter pink. This same shade lines the outside of the shape, giving it a glow. The right side of the shape is outlined in electric yellow, before the kelp-like lines continue.
Rita Deanin Abbey, Ancestral Garden, 2010
Regeneration, a large-scale acrylic painting by Rita Deanin Abbey. On the left are round, fuzzy pink and purple formations that fade into the round blue, watery formations. Both of these sections are interrupted by orangey bean-shapes against a yellow background on the right. These shapes float into the blue and purple sections.
Rita Deanin Abbey, Regeneration, 2007