Blandine Saint-Oyant is a French-American artist. She studied art in the US at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Musuem School in Boston, and has been living and working in the Los Angeles area for many years. She is an abstract painter and accomplished colorist who works with poured paint. Her work explores the relationships between fluidity and control, spontaneity and structure, exuberance and calm, resulting in intriguing abstract improvisation. Her work has been shown in different venues on the east coast, in southern California, and in France.    

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Blandine Saint-Oyant, “Resist”

 

The work in this show, “Resist,” juxtaposes drawing and painting techniques as a single mode of expression. The drawing is done with free spontaneous strokes of charcoal or oil stick, while the painting mixes liquified oil paint poured onto the canvas with thick, organic strokes applied with a spatula. After many years of painting practice, my process remains largely experimental and improvisational. My aim is to create a space in which contrasting elements are interwoven into organic and fluid compositions. They are about a world in a perpetual state of transformation, an unfolding elegant chaos of energies, a moving buoyant magma of colors and forms frozen into art.

 

At a time when so many features of art and culture are at risk, it is important to resist this threat and to continue to create and display our work.