Liz Coats’ work explores enduring questions about colour perception and spatial relations. She has had a long interest in light-affected surface patterns and the fabric underlying surface appearance.
Coats is interested in the ways that formal construction in abstract paintings can be influenced by colour hues and tonality in immediate surroundings; “For instance, assimilation of the fragmentary nature of colours as one sees them filtered through light or glimpsed at the periphery of vision,” she explains. Familiar colours and shapes continue to make up her practice.
Utopia Art Sydney
6 to 27 June, 2015
Sydney
Plenitude #3 (detail), 2013, acrylic media on canvas, 86 x 74cm
Courtesy of the artist and Utopia Art Sydney
