Untitled (from Collection Resonance) 2011

Monique Orsini made this gorgeous, untitled painting from the "Collection Resonance" using black ink. There's so much energy in these gestural marks, like Orsini was possessed, or in a conversation with the painting itself, and how it was emerging through trial, error, and intuition. I feel like she was thinking about landscape, or maybe some kind of flower, but then the paint took over and did its own thing! Look at how the black ink spreads and bleeds in different ways, with delicate thin lines interspersed within heavier brush marks, so that it becomes a kind of study in ink. This kind of reminds me of other artists like Franz Kline who also embraced abstraction to explore themes of movement and emotion. In the end, it’s as though all us artists are always just riffing off each other, right?