Shimmer
NEW PAINTINGS BY Helen Grimm
July 10th - 23RD, 2020
Helen Grimm’s new show, Shimmer, is full of lightness and joy. The colors in her expansive palate swirl and mingle and shine, as shells in a whirlpool. The forms of shells have inspired Grimm’s painting for over twenty years. She’s particularly drawn to their contradictions: the humble yet polished beauty within a rough worm-holed exterior, and bleached starkness against a rich splash of color. These forms afford Grimm an opportunity to explore line and shape, and scale and color. Hewing the line between representation and abstraction, Grimm’s paintings are reminiscent of looking below surfaces. You may be unsure of exactly what you’re seeing, but you feel its essence.