Title

Depth of the Surface

Authors

Marianne Rogoff, Department of Literature and Languages, Dominican University of CaliforniaFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2013

Department

Literature and Languages

Abstract

"Painter Melinda Cootsona chose the title 'A Sense of Place' for her September 2013 show at The Studio Shop long before “Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years” opened at San Francisco’s DeYoung Museum and art historians launched a series of lectures on his sense of place, though perhaps this is no coincidence. Cootsona expresses a clear love for the work of Diebenkorn and shares his figurative/abstract aesthetic and love of color. The paintings in Cootsona’s newest body of works offer similarly sensuous appreciation for the particular pleasures of California sunlight, but the “sense of place” she depicts may reflect a more psychological definition of the concept."

Comments

Originally appeared in the exhibition catalog for the solo exhibition, A Sense of Place, by Melinda Cootsona.