Jupiter is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new, never-before-seen paintings by Berlin-based, Dutch artist Lotte Wieringa—her debut in the United States and first presentation with the gallery. Taking its name from a work in her previous exhibition at Kunsthalle Emden in Germany, Turning Me All Red and Magenta represents a deeper dive into her practice: an immersion both of the artist and the viewer in the varied intensity of feeling that can be elicited by these titular colors—from glowing red cheeks reflective of summer love to threat and bloodshed.
The tension between this family of colors and their diverse signification is explored by Wieringa in the nine works on view, each of which comes to fruition via her highly gestural process of improvisational mark making with oil on cavas. Creating richly textured surfaces that vary in intensity between dense swaths of color and fluid line work, or rather, abstraction and annotation, Wieringa’s visual language proves highly evocative and emotionally resonant despite her economy of means. She creates a dialog with her materials and thus with the viewer, whereby color and line are translated into bodily experience.