Rise and Fall
2019
Acrylic on linen
68 x 62”

Liliane Tomasko’s (b. 1967, Zurich, Switzerland) abstract paintings employ a distinctive, bold lyricism, with an equally unabashed sense of color. The artist often begins with a study of the personal effects of everyday domesticity such as bedding or clothing to create work that suggests a gateway into the realms of sleep and dreaming; delving into the gulf between what we understand as the ‘conscious’ and ‘subconscious.’ Recent paintings display an increasing vitality and assertiveness, articulating an abstraction that is rooted in the physical realm but attempting a departure from it. Intense color, subtle tone, shadows and painterly gesture are woven together in such a way that space comes in and out of focus, suspending one’s perception of them and emulating the clarity or lack thereof, of dreams and memories.

Liliane Tomasko lives and works in New York and Germany.