Art: Deborah Poynton

August 23, 2007

Art: Deborah Poynton

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Poynton’s imagery is so close to the romantic and the surreal that her paintings do not work as romantic or surreal images. They have no overt symbolic meaning. They are ethical in that they do not encourage any moral directives. They appear to assume a postmodern, deconstructionist stance, albeit without the usual witticisms or grandeur. They affirm Jacques Derrida’s assertion that only painting can radically uncover truth. This is an art that speaks directly from itself, executed ‘on a knife’s edge’, so to speak. (- Peter Rech)

See also: Deborah Poynton at Michael Stevenson Gallery

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Picture from the artist’s website