Monica Tap: Road Trip

6 - 17 May 2011

Monica Tap's new work smoothly blurs the line between landscape and abstract. Based on a series of digital still images, the oil paintings are reminiscent of quickly scanning a view, then closing your eyes to recall it.

 

The eye and the memory play tricks, instilling a meld of fabrication and truth, distortion and accuracy and the liberty to fill in the blanks with, perhaps, what one hoped to see...

- Janice Ryan