Atlanta-based painter Rana Rochat returns to Seattle with her second solo exhibition at Winston Wächter Fine Art. Rana Rochat’s encaustic paintings explore a spontaneous abstraction based on an intuition and instinct. Each seeks a fragile balance between order and chaos, with non-specific forms and shapes moving through the painting field.
Rochat’s works have neither a foreground nor background, but rather exist as their own transparent and luminous environment. Her marks and gestures move through space in a “stream of consciousness” approach that reminds one of a novel, where bits and pieces of imagery are layered and revealed throughout.
Within an environment of deep light and color, Rochat creates an experience that is pre-verbal, promoting pictorial awareness before language or narrative has processed the visual information. There is a freshness to Rochat’s paintings, allowing the viewer a chance to let their imaginations wander as they follow the circuitous lines meandering in and around the fields, washes and points of color.
For more information, contact the gallery at (206) 652-5855.
