While painting, I can nurture and guide certain aspects of form. The rest must simply be allowed to occur, all on its own.
You search for recognition, reconciliation and resolution with one hand while proposing endless new leads with the other.
I hope I find solutions while never solving the mystery. Can meaning be defined and confounded at the same time? Instead of frustration, is it freedom?
Her work transforms the canvas into a layered excavation site, creating compositions that feel like both constructions and excavations. Yoder approaches painting as a conversation between the visible and the hidden, presence and absence. Each layer of paint embedding memory into the canvas and revealing a deep intimacy with the medium as both a physical and conceptual language.
Francisco Donoso, Curator