Beverly Acha
Observation and ways of seeing are the starting point for my
paintings. Color references atmosphere, time of day, and light in
space. Shapes reference landscape, architecture/structures, and
embodied experiences.
Abstraction lives in moments of perceptual slippage and in the
space between binaries, between knowing and seeing, between
experience and memory, and between the real and the imagined.
I locate these unstable in-betweens, which resist stasis and
being named, in sites of repetition, such as mimesis, echoes,
reflections, time, and technology.
My paintings develop intuitively in response to parameters I set.
The initial ordering rules allow for chance outcomes and for an
improvisational way of painting. It is through these subtle shifts
in the structures and systems of repetition that I make a game of
looking that reflects the game of its making.