Abstract expressionist, Nancy Charak’s Ooh La La is a tangle of line and color. The stark white background, linear vocabulary and bright, primary colors create an aesthetically pleasing composition but there is madness in the violently slashed and scribbled shapes. The piece has a contained spontaneity. Although some markings stray from the bounds – mostly they are composed in a columnal stack. Faint, ghostly forms recede into the background – just memories of lines; while other, louder, more emphatic marks emerge to the foreground. At times, these undulating horizontal lines resemble erratic brain waves.There’s something primal and child-like about this energetic, aggressive scrawl - it seems to trace unsayable sensations. The nest of lines is surrounded by a smooth expanse of calm white – like a padded cell corralling the frenzied, kinetic energy.
See it at ARC today!
By Rachel Brown
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