Brooklin Soumahoro France, b. 1990
Untitled (Energy Field Painting), 2021
Oil on linen
68 x 56 x 2 in
172.7 x 142.2 x 5.1 cm
172.7 x 142.2 x 5.1 cm
8170
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This painting by Brooklin Soumahoro (b. 1990, France) embodies the key aspects of his abstract visual language: a layered, colorful support paired with a linear design. A self-taught artist, Soumahoro...
This painting by Brooklin Soumahoro (b. 1990, France) embodies the key aspects of his abstract visual language: a layered, colorful support paired with a linear design. A self-taught artist, Soumahoro creates paintings that straddle a space between expressive mark making and minimal compositional strategies. He draws inspiration from the interplay between the perceived opposition between emotion and austerity.
Though seemingly complex, Soumahoro’s paintings are stripped down to their essential elements. Beginning with a carefully planned out structure, he painstakingly fills in the gridded space with small, intuitive, gestural, linear marks. This demanding process can be exhausting, putting him in a mindset somewhere in between the physical and metaphysical worlds. That sense of dualities in perspective is conveyed through the works, which Soumahoro describes as simultaneous representations of “stillness/chaos, violence/peace.”
Though seemingly complex, Soumahoro’s paintings are stripped down to their essential elements. Beginning with a carefully planned out structure, he painstakingly fills in the gridded space with small, intuitive, gestural, linear marks. This demanding process can be exhausting, putting him in a mindset somewhere in between the physical and metaphysical worlds. That sense of dualities in perspective is conveyed through the works, which Soumahoro describes as simultaneous representations of “stillness/chaos, violence/peace.”