Mama on Desolation Row
2021 Acrylic,oil and china marker on canvas 213.4 x 195.6 cm / 84 x 77 in
The opposing impulses of creation and destruction mark the touchstone of the Hungarian-born, New York-based artist Rita Ackermann’s practice, which continues to evolve and manifest itself in the shift from representation to abstraction. Ackermann’s compositions occupy a space between the figurative and the abstract, where human forms simultaneously disappear and re-emerge.