Colour Beyond the Frame

This artist is one that I looked at last semester. Tomislav Nikolic is an Australian Painter that work a lot with the casting shadowof pigment. " The teasing manipulation of the visible - what is chromatically barely detectable around the outside of the conspicuously framed rectangle or within it." this artist presents blank or extremely delicate stained canvases delineated by the starkly painted boarders and / or dark frames in florescent chroma to diffuse the contoured presence of the painted stretcher. He uses this process to create colours that float outside and inside the frame, on the canvas and on the surrounding wall. This casting of light catches the viewer in a space that encloses them as discrete entities.

Working with a similar process, I want the viewer to move around the work consider each side of the painting, through colour. I think Nicolic's process works well in a very subtle way, I went to this exhibition at Fox Jensen Gallery and only then did i see the reflective side of the frames, they act in a very subtle way but they draw you in wanting to know how the process is done, which I find interesting.