Issue 9 · Winter 2024

Art Worlds

Time-Traveling with Line

Lorraine Tady 

Jessica Baldivieso’s line-driven, gradient paintings veer from spatially receding grids to distinct staircases. Specific vibrating color palettes hang next to all-white relief constructions. To manifest her bold, implicit line imagery, Baldivieso moves between the use of tape and paint augmented with X-Acto blade cuts (to transfer planned drawings), laser cutter and computer-generated line (for distinct rigidity of line), freehand sketchbook drawings (often of her landscapes), and freehand drawing with tape directly on surfaces.

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This article appears in Athenaeum Review Issue 9 (Winter 2024), pp. 38-43. Download a PDF copy.
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