Lee Bontecou

 

After looking at Vaughn's post, I picked out a handful of artwork from Lee Bontecou to research a little more. Upon reading about Bontecou, the first thing that stood out to me was how she used the darkest part of her work to create a different dimension. Lee refers to her "black hole or voids" as a way to bring you into her world of science fiction. The art work below main focus, for me, is the center circular object. I am torn between a part of a spacecraft and the center of a universe that she has created. In my last post, Sean Tucker talked about embracing the shadows and I feel that Bontecou pieces speaks to me in the same way.















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