Paula Menchen

Visual Artist

Electric Fences and Sanctuaries

The series Electric Fences and stained Glass windows explores the concept of borders, boundaries and intersections.


Electric Fences

55” x 55”, 2019

Mixed Media, oil, fragmented prints and collage on canvas.


Working with a series of drawings and prints the painting is offered to the viewer as an evocative and suggestive surface.  By constructing and deconstructing the pictorial plane I eliminate fragments emphasizing  the tactile surface and transformative color palette focusing on electric fences and the idea of borders what is protected and nurtured and what is exiled or ostracized.


Electric Fences and Stained Glass Windows

40” x 40”, 2020

Mixed media, oil, enamel, painted paper, fragmented prints and collage.


Spiked, confining and impenetrable, what do we nurture and what we consider foreign.

Cathedral

24” x 24”, 2023

Mixed media, oil and collage on canvas.


Sanding, cutting, smoothing and grinding surfaces that become, impressions, footprints and traces.

SELECTED WORKS

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paulamenchen@gmail.com

EXPERIMENTAL LANDSCAPES

MIXED MEDIA

INSTALLATIONS

PRINTS