Paintings
Women
palette Homages 2
Woodstock, NY. 2025
Women Artists' palettes inspire the color choices.
No representation -
just color fields / action painting
Azank’s homages shine a light on the, by now of course, less under-represented female color pioneers, but this tipping of the hat to the greats that came before him has magically created equality - because in the end it is the work that earns your place in history, hopefully, and not your assigned gender. While we try to culturally gender color all the time, in reality, there is no such thing as differences in wavelengths our eyes can perceive. Color is of nature, but nature does not codify gender the way we thought.
from Moni Schifler-Azank's essay "Does Color have a Gender?
Wavefield #258, after a Palette by Aleksandra Ekster. 10/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board
Wavefield #257, after a Palette by Lyubov Popova. 10/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board
Wavefield #249, after a Palette by Lois Mailou Jones. 10/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board
Wavefield #245, after a Palette by Tarsila do Amaral. 10/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board
Wavefield #238, after a Palette by Pacita Abad.
9/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board
Wavefield #241, after a Palette by Joan Mitchell. 10/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board
Wavefield #237, after a Palette by Helen Frankenthaler. 9/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board
Wavefield #235, after a Palette by Aleksandra Ekster. 9/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board
"Then, further, he places some of these studies on a slant as diamonds, and thus they begin to become as if op art, expressing themselves in dizzying wavelengths of visual experience a la Bridget Riley or, in a more present moment, Karen Davies. Azank furthers the diamonds with obverse and reverse at angular canvas posi-tionings, stimulating different optical responses in an excavatory manner as in launching a catalyst, which leads to a questioning of other painters' chromatic abstractions and/or deconstructions.
Azank finds the symphonic in the stop-and-go motion and turns it all
around. I was so spurred on by this new development in his work after having followed it for so many years that this prompter par excellence put his own version of the idea to an AI test."
from Palette Homages, by Lee Klein. Village Review, August 2025-
Wavefield #234, after a Palette by Lyubov Popova. 9/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board
Alternate View: Wavefield #234.
Wavefield #233, after a Palette by Marianne von Werefkin. 9/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board
Wavefield #232, after a Palette by Marianne von Werefkin. 9/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board
Wavefield ##231, after a Palette by Marianne von Werefkin. 9/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board
Wavefield #228, after a Palette by Hannah Höch. 9/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board
Wavefield #227, after a Palette by Hannah Höch. 9/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board
Wavefield #225, after a Palette by Hannah Höch. 9/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board
Wavefield #226, after a Palette by Helen Frankenthaler. 9/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board
Wavefield #224, after a Palette by Armita Sher-Gilr, 9/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board
