Christine Mottau

CHRISTINE MOTTAU: Escape to Within
November 2-27, 2021

Ceres Gallery is pleased to announce Christine Mottau’s Escape to Within, an exhibition of recent paintings. The exhibition marks Mottau’s ninth solo exhibition with the gallery. 

Escape to Within presents Christine Mottau’s new body of abstract oil paintings, made in 2020 and 2021 based on chakra meditation theory. Mottau’s abstractions are a highly personal exploration of the imagery she envisioned while practicing meditation. The paintings record a visual expression of the transportive experience.With a distinctive interest in color and light Mottau captures swirling psychic energy with luminous reds, shimmering purples and searing greens. Using a unique glazing technique, she layers translucent colors to construct an immersive sense of form and depth. With little discernible brushwork, each abstraction appears ephemeral, evocative of transitory images coming into consciousness.

Despite its emphasis on inner worlds, In-Sight-Out exemplifies Mottau’s distinctive interest in color and light by capturing swirling psychic energy with luminous reds, shimmering purples and searing greens. Using a unique glazing technique, Mottau layers translucent colors to construct an immersive sense of form and depth. With little discernible brushwork, each abstraction appears ephemeral, evocative of transitory images coming into consciousness.

Throughout her work, Mottau has focused on truth and beauty with a practice that reflects introspection and a reverence for an inner world. Mottau’s paintings create a necessary space of tranquility and gesture toward individual and collective transcendence.

Christine Mottau has exhibited regularly in solo and group exhibitions in American galleries since the 1980s. Living and working In New York City and Spencertown, NY, she was educated at the Art Institute of Boston and the Museum School of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. Her work is represented by Ceres Gallery, where she has shown her paintings, drawings and paper sculptures in both solo and group shows.